Subject: Re: netbsd boot problem
To: Madhur Nigam <nigam@students.uiuc.edu>
From: Chris Pinnock <cjep@fawlty.net>
List: port-i386
Date: 09/06/2003 19:52:43
On Sat, Sep 06, 2003 at 12:47:31PM -0500, Madhur Nigam wrote:
> 
> on PB it detects the floppy drive saying
> fdc0 at isa0 port ..... irq 6 drq 2
> fd0 at fdc0 drive 0: 1.44MB 18 cyl 2 head 16 sec
> and then stops.
> 
> any reason why it is doing that?

It could be a number of things. I had a laptop (Toshiba) that would
freeze at the point unless one turned the software modem off in the
BIOS.

Are you able to drop to the debugger (CTRL+ALT+ESCAPE)?

Regards,
Chris