>Date: Fri, 15 Aug 1997 11:37:00 -0700 (PDT)
>From: Scott Presnell <srp@zgi.com>

>	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:

You should make sure that the kernel on that disk was built with
'options I386_CPU', or you might not get far....

>Error C:0 H:0 S:0.
>
>after each /, -, \, and |.

AFAIK, this means that the BIOS got an error reading cylinder 0, head
0, sector 0 of your disk.  However, something funny is going on
because the /-\| pattern is only generated while loading the kernel,
which isn't stored in the first sector on the disk.  These messages
are probably spurious, and may result from the age of your old PC's
BIOS.
-- 
Mike Long <mikel@shore.net>                http://www.shore.net/~mikel
"Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit on his hands,
hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats." -- H.L. Mencken