> There is a strange bug which renders the screen exceptionally hard to
> read if I boot by doing wd(0,a)/netbsd: The screen is remapped into a
> few uneven quadrants which have a stable but random wrapping
> destination. This interspersed with whatever is on the screen when it
> first happens. This happens with the kcaha-1.0 + inst-1.0 floppies as
> well, but it gets corrected for no apparent reason around the time the
> system discovers a lack of an rc. 
> 

What kind of video device do you have?  Do you have any kind of video
shadow ram turned on?

later,
Adam Glass