>>> Anyone got a pointer to something that will boot on these boards?  I know
>>> Gentoo Linux had trouble with their installer until recently.
>>
>> See PR 26007[1] and the NetBSD mailing list archives.
>
> ...and especially this[2] post... ;-)
>
>
>> HTH, Jukka
>>
>> [1] http://www.netbsd.org/cgi-bin/query-pr-single.pl?number=26007

Thanks.  How clean would a 1.6 -> 2.0 upgrade come out, or would I get munged again on the bootloader from the upgrade?



> [2] http://mail-index.netbsd.org/port-i386/2005/02/28/0005.html

I'm not in the UK, unfortunately.



Some of the Linux distros hit this last year but most seem to have handled it by now.

Discussion starting at <https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=120685#c35> and a resolution from Ingo Molnar <https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=120685#c113> might prove helpful?