On Sat, Oct 18, 2003 at 10:47:31PM +0200, Frank van der Linden wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 18, 2003 at 03:41:41PM -0500, Richard Rauch wrote:
> > I tried three ways of booting:
> > 
> >  * Old 1.6 i386 install on the hard drive.
> > 
> >  * Quite recent i386 -current.
> > 
> >  * The 20031005 snapshop of AMD64.
> > 
> > They all gave varying and strange results.  Since I was on a local console,
> > I had to manually transcribe the errors.  Here are some of them:
> 
> [...]
> 
> Unfortunately, it sounds like you have a hardware problem there. I'm always
> willing to take some blame, but both NetBSD/i386 and NetBSD/amd64 failing
> in mysterious ways is just too much :) Memory is always the first thing to
> check. Your options may be:

Yes. I suppose I shouldn't resist the notion so much, since it's all new and
under warranty.  Just replace bits and try again.  (^&


> 	* load 'failsafe' defaults in the BIOS (if you have those)
> 	* try different memory module(s), or perhaps just one module
> 	  if you're currently working with more.
> 	* if you think the IDE interface is suspect, try booting
> 	  from floppy and see if that consistently works

I should have tried the failsafe settings, I guess.

I can't test any of them at the moment.  Tomorrow, I think...


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