>Number:         25552
>Category:       port-i386
>Synopsis:       Boot-Floppies fail to boot on i386
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       critical
>Priority:       high
>Responsible:    port-i386-maintainer
>State:          open
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   net
>Arrival-Date:   Thu May 13 00:24:00 UTC 2004
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Matthias Petermann
>Release:        NetBSD 2.0-BETA (current, cvs from May, 12th 2004)
>Organization:
HTW Dresden
>Environment:
not available :-/
>Description:
I have a fairly serious problem with the NetBSD 2.0-BETA boot-floppies
on i386 (boot1.fs, boot2.fs). I checked out the current-sources at 
May, 12th and built a release. Earlier current-releases (from April,
28th) boot up just fine on my IBM Thinkpad 600 Notebook.

But the May, 12th-release raises an error after changing boot 
floppy 1 to boot floppy 2.

<snip>
booting fd0a:netbsd - starting in 0
3648460/
Please remove disk 1, insert disk 2, and press return...
+5197916+289576lseek section headers: invalid file offset
</snip>

After that, the boot process seems to freeze. I tried it with two
pairs of floppies, so physical disk-errors could not be the reason.
The discs were error-checked beforehand.
>How-To-Repeat:
If I can help with some additional info, please let me know. At the moment I have no idea what could be helpful and what not.
>Fix:

>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
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