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"Wolfgang S. Rupprecht" writes:
> 
> A -current/i386 from this afternoons sources fails early in booting.
> The BIOS does its probing and testing and then about the time it would
> pass control to the netbsd bootblocks I get the message (in all caps):
> 
>      HIT ANY KEY TO REBOOT
> 
> I did install new bootblocks along with a new kernel and userland.
> (Booting from an ancient 1999 set of bootblocks on a floppy did get me
> up and running, so it really is only the on-disk boot code that is the
> problem.)

Here is an untested patch that will hopefully fix the (currently 
busted) logic in the bootblocks... 

Later...

Greg Oster


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Index: boot1.c
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvsroot/src/sys/arch/i386/stand/bootxx/boot1.c,v
retrieving revision 1.11
diff -c -r1.11 boot1.c
*** boot1.c	23 Oct 2006 21:36:47 -0000	1.11
--- boot1.c	24 Oct 2006 15:29:05 -0000
***************
*** 86,92 ****
  	 */
  	fd = ob();
  	if (fd != -1)
! 		goto out;
  	/*
  	 * Maybe the filesystem is enclosed in a raid set.
  	 * add in size of raidframe header and try again.
--- 86,92 ----
  	 */
  	fd = ob();
  	if (fd != -1)
! 		goto done;
  	/*
  	 * Maybe the filesystem is enclosed in a raid set.
  	 * add in size of raidframe header and try again.
***************
*** 96,102 ****
  	bios_sector += RF_PROTECTED_SECTORS;
  	fd = ob();
  	if (fd != -1)
! 		goto out;
  	/*
  	 * Nothing at the start of the MBR partition, fallback on
  	 * partition 'a' from the disklabel in this MBR partition.
--- 96,102 ----
  	bios_sector += RF_PROTECTED_SECTORS;
  	fd = ob();
  	if (fd != -1)
! 		goto done;
  	/*
  	 * Nothing at the start of the MBR partition, fallback on
  	 * partition 'a' from the disklabel in this MBR partition.
***************
*** 104,110 ****
  	if (ptn_disklabel.d_magic != DISKMAGIC ||
  	    ptn_disklabel.d_magic2 != DISKMAGIC ||
  	    ptn_disklabel.d_partitions[0].p_fstype == FS_UNUSED)
! 		goto out;
  	bios_sector = ptn_disklabel.d_partitions[0].p_offset;
  	*sector = bios_sector;
  	if (ptn_disklabel.d_partitions[0].p_fstype == FS_RAID)
--- 104,110 ----
  	if (ptn_disklabel.d_magic != DISKMAGIC ||
  	    ptn_disklabel.d_magic2 != DISKMAGIC ||
  	    ptn_disklabel.d_partitions[0].p_fstype == FS_UNUSED)
! 		goto done;
  	bios_sector = ptn_disklabel.d_partitions[0].p_offset;
  	*sector = bios_sector;
  	if (ptn_disklabel.d_partitions[0].p_fstype == FS_RAID)
***************
*** 114,119 ****
--- 114,120 ----
  	if (fd == -1)
  		goto out;
  
+ done:
  	if (fstat(fd, &sb) == -1) {
  out:
  		return "Can't open /boot\r\n";

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