Subject: Re: Booting NetBSD 1.3.2 with the NT boot loader
To: Marcus Glocker <mglocker@nextron.ch>
From: Bill Studenmund <skippy@macro.Stanford.EDU>
List: port-i386
Date: 11/20/1998 17:54:01
On Thu, 19 Nov 1998, Marcus Glocker wrote:

> 
> BUG Report
> -------------
> 
> If you want to boot NetBSD with a NetBSD boot-floppy disc on a ATAPI
> LS-120
> floppy-drive which is know as a IDE device, NetBSD will crash (reboot)
> after its loaded
> its boot-block without any messages (black screen, reboot).

In general, please report bugs using the send-pr program (*). I think you
can also report bugs through the web page, but I'm just gessing there.

(*) I realize it's kinda hard to use a NetBSD command to report problems
w/ booting NetBSD :-)

As an aside, I think this problem was recently fixed. Some BIOS's like to
write info about the LS-120 into a table in the normal DOS boot block. We
stored code there until recently. So the BIOS would overwrite part of the
code and thus things go splat.

Take care,

Bill