Sounds to me like a misbehaving Plug-and-Play device.  Try removing
hardware, one board at a time...

On Mon, 16 Feb 1998, RNS wrote:

> Dear Sirs,
> 
> I tried to install NetBSD 1.3.2.  in a HP VL 7 PC ( Pentium II 266 Mhz,
> 4 Go IDE, 64 MB RAM). Everything goes well until I tried to boot under
> the hard disk. I have the following lines displayed:
> 
>     fd0 at fd0a drive 0:1.44 MB,80 cycl, 2 head, 18 sec
>     isapnp 0 at isa 0 port 0x279:read port 0x203
>     extent_alloc_region : extent 'ioport', size 0x0
>     panic: extent_alloc_region :bad size
>     stopped at _Debugger + 0x4: leave
>     db>
> 
> 
> Thank you in advance.
> 
> Rédouane Semlali
> 
> 

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