On Fri, 22 Sep 2006, Stephen Borrill wrote:

>> So: What is the easiest and clean method to get to 3.0.1 happiness on this 
>> system?
>
> Gavan's patch (which was committed) works fine, but he'd be the first to 
> admit it's a hack. David wants to fix it properly.
>
> When I last installed 3.x-ish the standard mbr boot loaders work fine, but 
> not the pxeboot ones. This is because of -DEPIA_HACK being missed out from 
> pxeboot/Makefile. See:
>
> http://mail-index.netbsd.org/port-i386/2006/08/18/0002.html

I'm sorry I didn't make it clear. I actually _tried_ booting the system 
from CD's (1.6.2 and 3.0.1). I could not boot the 3.0.1 on my Epia 5000 has
the same experience as noted by Steve Rumble: "While 1.6 works fine, the
present code causes the monitor to attempt to resync like crazy, followed
by either an eventual reboot, or a hard hang." 
If I understand it correctly Gavan's patch should already be part of 3.x 
(except pxeboot) so basicly I (think I) am saying that the hack did not 
cover Epia 5000.

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Kind Regards,
Claus Andersen