Hubert Feyrer wrote:
> On Tue, 28 Jun 2005, Bang Jun-Young wrote:
> > It's odd because all the machines I have tested so far worked fine (i.e.,
> > jumping to the mbr of the first hard disk after timeout). What's the name
> > and version of the BIOS on your machine?
> 
> qemu, with no bootable harddisk attached. ;)
> I think it should boot the CD by default, just as the ustarfs and on-disk 
> bootloaders do (i.e. continue to boot the medium that the bootloader came 
> from).

It's a TODO entry registered in my brain. :-)

> >> And one more:
> >> when pressing _any_ key (e.g. space, x) while it's printing dots, it boots
> >> immediately. No chance to select a different kernel or run "ls" like the
> >> "normal" i386 bootloader that we use on floppies & harddisks does.
> >> Can we get the same behaviour there, possibly with the familiar 5 seconds
> >> countdown?
> >
> > That's an emulation problem. Bochs and QEMU suffer from it, while VMware
> > and real machines don't. I don't know why but probably we should modify
> > boot(8) to make it work properly with emulators as a workaround.
> 
> Ah, is that the same bug that basically doesn't do any countdown when 
> booting NetBSD from a harddisk in qemu too, skipping the countdown in 
> effect? At least I can still get into the boot menu on harddisk boots 
> inside qemu when I'm quick. Fixing this would be very nice!

Yes, it's the same one. I think I have found what's causing this. A fix will
be available soon, hopefully.

Jun-Young