port-i386/43168: CD boot image fails to find root file system + (half)dead keyboard

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>Number:         43168
>Category:       port-i386
>Synopsis:       CD boot image fails to find root file system + (half)dead 
>keyboard
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       serious
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    port-i386-maintainer
>State:          open
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   net
>Arrival-Date:   Fri Apr 16 08:10:00 +0000 2010
>Originator:     Havard Eidnes
>Release:        NetBSD 5.99.27
>Organization:
        I try...
>Environment:
        
        
System: NetBSD 5.99.27 i386 as of Apr 13 2010
Architecture: i386
Machine: i386
>Description:
        A recently built CD boot image when booted on this MSI
        motherboard with a P4 CPU exhibits the following symptoms:

        1) The kernel fails to find the booted-from device, and
           therefore the root file system automatically

        2) The keyboard input (PS/2 interface) appears to be dead,
           i.e. attempts at interacting with init to tell it the root
           file system appears to be non-functional, even typing
           "md0a" blind (nothing is echoed) gives no result.  The
           keyboard *is* however able to break into DDB.

>How-To-Repeat:
        Try to boot an i386 kernel from a CD image, watch it fail as
        above.

>Fix:
        Sorry, don't know.

>Unformatted: