Do you have some way of verifying that the boot floppy was written
correctly?

It might not be the most elegant thing in the world but I usually do just a

diff boot.fs /dev/fd0a

as a test read and check. If you don't trust diff I think you can do

dd if=/dev/fd0a | diff boot.fs -

	- Joel

> Hi there,
> 
> I'm new to NetBSD and decided to give it a spin.  I tried installing with
> the boot image from version 1.3.3 (boot.fs)  Unfortunately, both on an
> IBM ThinkPad 760 and an HP Vectra desktop, my floppy drive light goes
> on and my screen displays an underscore (_) cursor and stays that way.
> I've tried dd and rawrite (from dos) to get the image to different floppies
> from different machines, and I'm afraid I may be missing something very
> basic somewhere.  Can someone give me a pointer?
> 
> Thank you very much,
> 
> -John