On Sun, 15 Oct 2006, David Lord wrote:

> Mid June I built up a server using a EPIA PD6000E m/b. I sort of
> remember some issue with getting it to boot after install of NetBSD
> 3.0 but didn't save the details.

You're probably thinking of PR 26007:
http://www.netbsd.org/cgi-bin/query-pr-single.pl?number=26007

> Any ideas?

I don't know about the geometry issues but I do know that the bootloader 
has problems on some Epia boards.

> Other problem is that I can't get a NetBSD-4_20061001 cd to boot on
> this system whereas the cd boots ok on my desktop (celeron 733). I
> might burn a second cd in case it's just the media.

Depends on how far you get. If the CD starts booting at least, the media 
is probably fine. I'd try with a 1.6 bootloader:
http://netbsd.org/Ports/i386/faq.html#via_epia_bootloader

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Kind Regards,
Claus Andersen