Re: booting trouble on virtual machines

[gson%gson.org@localhost (Andreas Gustafsson)]

Tyler Retzlaff wrote:
> are there any known problems booting -current installs at the moment?   
> Using
> boot.iso and i386cd.iso from a build.sh release produce the following  
> for me
> on qemu & parallels.
> 
>  >> NetBSD/x86 BIOS Boot, Revision 3.3
>  >> (rtr%calculon.omicron-persei-8.net@localhost, Thu Mar 20 00:53:12 EST 
> 2008)
>  >> Memory: 639/52364 k
> Press return to boot now, any other key for boot menu
> booting netbsd0a:onetbsd.gz - starting in 0
> open netbsd: Device not configured
> boot: netbsd0a:onetbsd.gz: Device not configured
> booting (invalid)
> open netbsd.gz: bad drive number
> boot: (invalid): bad drive number

I'm seeing the same issue.  I'm booting qemu from a virtual floppy
image, not an ISO, so the problem is not specific to booting from
ISOs.

This is with sources from 20080320-2033 EET.  A build from
20080314-1531 EET boots fine.
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