In article <199509030628.BAA05462@en.ecn.purdue.edu>
willey@ecn.purdue.edu (Mark F Willey) writes:

   I have a strange problem.  On two machines, one 1.0 and one
   -current as of a few weeks ago, when the boot loader begins to load
   the kernel, the loading process absolutely hangs.

This typically happens when the boot program can't find the MBR, or
finds a corrupt one, and gets a divide by zero fault.  Obviously the
error handling {c,sh}ould be better...