Subject: Re: unable to boot NetBSD 2.0 iso
To: Frederick Bruckman <fredb@immanent.net>
From: James Chacon <jmc@NetBSD.org>
List: port-i386
Date: 12/09/2004 10:29:26
On Thu, Dec 09, 2004 at 12:09:41AM -0600, Frederick Bruckman wrote:
> In article <33A8FD0E-495E-11D9-B1AA-0003938BD004@tiac.net>,
> jsarkes@tiac.net (Joseph Sarkes) writes:
> > My Toshiba satelite laptop will not boot the
> > new NetBSD 2.0 iso. It hangs after probing the
> > cardbus device if memory serves, but I don't know
> > what it is actually trying to do when it wedges.
> >
> > Let me know if there is something else to try to
> > get the system to boot, or if I need a different
> > kernel.
>
> The natural thing to try would be the "bootlap" images, made from
> the "INSTALL_LAPTOP" kernel. There's a hook in the iso-image target
> to easily make an image with a bootlap-big kernel, if you were making
> images. Probably easier for you, would be to make the bootlap1 and
> bootlap2 floppies from the images on the CD-ROM, and boot from them.
> You can still install the sets from CD-ROM.
>
Hmmm...let me look at making an x86 laptop cdrom iso as well.
James