I get no counter, no prompt for disk 2, nuttin'! The output is _exactly_
what I listed.

And for those who think I'm _totally_ clueless, yes, I hit "enter",
"return", whatever you want to call it, and it still just sits there.

(BRS, Big Red Switch; power button)

Bill

>>> Chris Jones <chris@cjones.org> 05/31/01 18:00 PM >>>
On Thu, May 31, 2001 at 05:01:16PM -0500, William Chase wrote:

> popped floppy 1 in the drive and hit the BRS. Instead of asking for
> floppy 2 I get the message:
> 
> >> NetBSD/i386 BIOS Boot, REvision 2.7
> >> (fvdl@sushi,Mon Nov 6 6 12:40:08 MET 2000)
> >> Memory 639/39936 k
> Use hd1a:netbsd to boot sd0 when wd0 is also installed
> Press return to boot now, any other key for boot menu
> booting fd0a:netbsd - starting in 0
> type "?" or "help" for help.
> >

This looks normal, if you hit a key.  (What key is BRS, anyway?)  Try
putting the floppy in the drive, rebooting the computer, and just
waiting.

Are you sure the above message is really what it said?  The first
lines look very normal.  What I've experienced is:

* BIOS screens flash by.

* Machine reads boot record from floppy 1.  Prints the first few lines
  of text which you quote above.

* Counter counts down from 5 to 0, if I don't press any key.

* Machine reads most of kernel from floppy 1.  The little twirler
  twirls, and the reading takes a few minutes.  It prints some size
  numbers (maybe 3 different numbers?) while the twirler's twirling.

* It asks me to insert disk 2; I do that, then hit return.

* The twirler twirls some more, while it reads the rest of the kernel.

* It boots, sysinst runs, etc.

At what stage in this process are you running into trouble?

Chris

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