Thanks guys.  I will try that.  My next step will be to create a series 
of custom floppies on my good NetBSD machine with different kernels, 
until I find a kernel that works on my T5048 (D102GGC2). 


David Laight wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 10, 2007 at 03:19:43PM -0500, Steven M. Bellovin wrote:
>   
>> I suspect a bad interaction with some device on your machine.  I think
>> you should try booting a very minimal kernel and then adding devices,
>> one by one, until you find it.  INSTALL_TINY or GENERIC_TINY might be a
>> good starting point.
>>
>> The other, completely different approach, is to boot GENERIC.MPACPI,
>> since there have been reports of machines that won't boot without ACPI
>> support active.
>>     
>
> Maybe even GENERIC.LAPTOP ...
>
> 	David
>
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