root@garbled.net wrote:

> Even crazier.. I still do my test netboots with 1.5... oh geez.

I also tried much older boot (not boot_com0) and the same kernel:
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>> NetBSD/prep BOOT, Revision 1.2
>> (tsutsui@mirage, Sun Jun 28 20:43:51 JST 2001)
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then we(4) also works fine on the kernel.

Attaching uninitilized VGA (S3 86C864-1 on my 7248)
prevents some ISA memory space access?
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Izumi Tsutsui