On Fri, Jun 28, 2002 at 01:34:56AM +0200, masqurin wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I tried to install netBSD 1.5.2 on my presario 1211EA Notebook.
> 
> Halas, it fails at the beginniing of the installation process, during 
> hardware probing. The last line displayed before the screen freeze is:
> 
> biomask fffd netmask fffd ttymask ffff

This is a really strange mask. ffff for ttymask looks completely
wrong, and may explain the hand.
Can you try to get the boot messages (from a serial console, maybe) ?

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