Looks like Kons was right.  I pulled the 3Com card, and it stopped at the
same place.  I know it's not a problem with the memory, since I have 8
sticks of 1mb 36(?) pin memory, and it happened with both sets.  My problem
is that my machine only has 4x36 pin slots and 2x72 pin slots.  The 72 pin
parity memory I have laying around isn't recognized.  I hate to say it, but
it sucks that win95 boots on 4mb, and NetBSD hangs...... ;-(

----- Original Message -----
From: Kons Martin Johansson <Martin.B.Johansson@emw.ericsson.se>
To: <james3838@tsi-net.com>
Cc: <port-i386@netbsd.org>
Sent: Wednesday, April 21, 1999 12:53 AM
Subject: Re: Boot Floppy Hangs


>
>
> I also had problems with the boot floppy, it hung at 'root file system
type: ffs'. My setup is similiar to yours: 486SX 33, 260 MB HD, 4MB Ram,
NetBSD 1.3.3 boot.fs.
> After some experimenting I came to the conclusion that 4 MB of memory was
the problem. The Boot Floppy booted fine when I put an extra 8 MB of memory
in the machine. Apparently, 4 MB is not enough to hold the initial ramdisk.
>
> /Martin Johansson
>
>
>
>
> > From port-i386-owner-martin=st.se@netbsd.org Wed Apr 21 08:15:08 1999
> > X-Authentication-Warning: cynic.anim.dreamworks.com: abs owned process
doing -bs
> > Date: Tue, 20 Apr 1999 23:07:44 -0700 (PDT)
> > From: David Brownlee <abs@anim.dreamworks.com>
> > To: James Webster <james3838@tsi-net.com>
> > cc: port-i386@netbsd.org
> > Subject: Re: Boot Floppy Hangs
> > MIME-Version: 1.0
> > Sender: port-i386-owner@netbsd.org
> > Delivered-To: port-i386@netbsd.org
> >
> > Is one attached via isa and the other via isapnp?
> >
> > If so, it has _just_ been fixed in 1.4_BETA :)
> > You should try the next snapshot of 1.4_BETA if you can - it
> > should be announced RSN on this list...
> >
> > David/absolute
> >
> >                       Neighbours should be one of:
> >                 a) Understanding   b) Distant   c) Deaf
> >
> > On Tue, 20 Apr 1999, James Webster wrote:
> >
> > > I needed a spare system to run some tests on, so I grabbed an old
unused 486 off the shelf and put together parts to make a new system.
Nothing fancy, though the hard drive I threw on it had Win95 (which actually
booted, which indicates to me there can't be a serious hardware problem).
> > >
> > > My problem is, when I boot using the 1.3.3 (and 1.3.2) boot.fs it
hangs at "root file system type: ffs".  The only thing odd that I noticed
was that it detected my 3Com 3C509B twice.  Once as ep0 (irq 15) and once as
ep1 (irq 5).
> > >
> > > The last four lines listed are:
> > >
> > > md0: internal 1537k image area
> > > boot device: fd0
> > > root on md0a dumps on md0b
> > > root file system type: ffs
> > >
> > > This is a generic 486DX2 66 machine, with a 216MB HD, 4MB Ram, and two
ethernet cards (3c509B and NE2000 compatible).
> > >
> > > Thanks for your help,
> > > James
> > >
> >
> >
>