In message <199708151837.LAA25454@blaster.zgi.com>, Scott Presnell writes:
>Hi Folks,
>	I've got an old 386 I wanted to use with NetBSD.  I put in the 
>boot floppy that I used for my newer pentium.  The disk seemed to have
>been read at some level as I get the netbsd.... msg.  It correctly 
>recognized the memory as 640/3328k but as it started to boot with the
>rotating star, I got:
>
>Error C:0 H:0 S:0.
>
>after each /, -, \, and |.
>
>The disk/floppy controller is a combination ide/fdd/serial/parallel/game port
>card.  I don't know the manufacturer.  I can probably add another 4Mb,
>but the bios doesn't seem to understand 4Mbit chips.
>
>The machine works fine with windows 3.1 and/or DOS.
>
>Can someone enlighten me as to the meaning of that error message?
>Is it disk or memory related?

Disk.  Try writing the boot disk floppy image to a different floppy.

-wps