In article <20011030214058.13977.qmail@web13802.mail.yahoo.com>
jpschaaf@yahoo.com wrote:

> I have attempted to boot from the floppy with the
> command "boot fd:0", after the startup chime played, I
> received a simple message which states "claim failed".
 :
> I then decided to check and see what devices were
> listed in the open firmware.  
 :
> screen    /valkyrie

The Valkyrie video based machines cannot read bootblocks
if you are using kbd/screen for console.
You have to use serial console to boot NetBSD on such machines.

I heard VRAM of valkyrie is mapped at address 0x0 on OF and
it prevents loading bootblocks to the memory.
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Izumi Tsutsui
tsutsui@ceres.dti.ne.jp