Subject: Re: no available disks?
To: Chris Kantarjiev <cak+gmane@dimebank.com>
From: Frank van der Linden <fvdl@netbsd.org>
List: port-amd64
Date: 08/10/2006 12:01:47
On Wed, Aug 09, 2006 at 06:06:28PM -0700, Chris Kantarjiev wrote:
> I've been hacking away at this all day with some help (hi Greg!). I'm not 
> learning anything significant, yet, but I've got more data. I'm working 
> with 3.99.8 because that's a system that I know will boot on this mobo 
> model.

I would try enabling ACPI in the INSTALL kernel, and see what that
gives you. If that still fits on the floppy image, at least..

Since all OSes these days do use ACPI, MPS support (MPBIOS in the
NetBSD kernel) seems to be bitrotting in a lot of BIOS implementations.

- Frank