> >Synopsis:       i386 bootblocks are incompatible with older mainboards

> NetBSD-current's i386 bootblock doesn't work on an ASUS CUBX
> motherboard any more. It simply gets stuck before the 2nd stage loader
> prompts for the boot options. I've rewritten the bootblocks with
> "installboot" and tried a Promise ULTRA 100 instead of the onboard
> CMD 0648 IDE hostadapter but it didn't help. But since I finally
> replaced the NetBSD-current boot blocks with NetBSD 1.6.1_STABLE ones
> - the motherboard was running 1.6.1_STABLE before - the system boots
> from the harddisk fine again. So there is a serious regression in the
> bootloaders caused by changes made after NetBSD 1.6 was released.

> cpu0: Intel Celeron (686-class), 1102.56 MHz, id 0x68a

Thats not older :-)

Some questions:
1) Are you using /usr/sbin/installboot or /usr/mdec/installboot ?
1a) If the former did you remember to copy /usr/mdec/biosboot to /boot ?
2) What was the last message that was actually output?

	David

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David Laight: david@l8s.co.uk