>Even if the original problem is solved:
>Your memory works well. There is a change to the floppy driver
>from november last year (by thorpej indeed) which fixed this.
>(I had to scan the source change entries to find it.)
>However, the boot code uses the BIOS, and doesn't care about
>hardware timing.

oh...er...yeah.  true.  :)

>As Mike Long mentioned before, the kernel shouldn't be located
>at sector 0, so the drive must have read bad data (perhaps all
>zeros) at a point before.

no, it should not, but i used to get these errors all the time when
installing netbsd.  sure, the numbers varied from machine to machine,
but all i could do was retry it with different (new) floppies, writing
the images on different machines, even going so far as to mix up the
drives and the computers.

this was exceedingly annoying because i could dd the image out to the
floppy, and the dd the *exact* same thing back in and it still didn't
work.  i posted about this at the time (13 nov 1996), but nobody paid
any attention.

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