Thanks dude!
Your prescription fit perfectly!
Now at least the floppy works!

I'm not sure what to do next, but I've
doewnloaded  a bunch of bios suggestions
most of which talk about a flash-bios or
something. Mine is Award Bios 1005.

Brian Wildasinn
bwildasi@csulb.edu



Urban Boquist wrote:

> Some BIOSes can be confused if it does not recognise the MBR. Earlier
> NetBSD version could sometimes create such MBR's, but that should be
> fixed in NetBSD-1.3.3 (it may have been still there in 1.3.2). In
> order to get around the current problem and at least be able to boot
> from a floppy, try turning off the IDE harddrive in the BIOS (so that
> it does not try to read the MBR on the disk). At least that worked for
> me when I had this problem (but of course, your problem may also be
> something else).
>
> Good luck,
>
>         -- Urban