The following reply was made to PR port-i386/26007; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Petar Bogdanovic <p+netbsd@2005.smokva.net>
To: gavan@coolfactor.org, rumble@ephemeral.org,
	tom@insolvencyhelp.org, rasputnik@hellooperator.net,
	teemu@rinta-aho.org, cpghost@cordula.ws,
	roman.karuschka@cryptographic.de
Cc: gnats-bugs@netbsd.org
Subject: Re: port-i386/26007
Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2005 20:56:34 +0200

 A few weeks ago, I bought a VIA EPIA 5000. Today, I tried to boot NetBSD
 3-BETA (cvs update: 26.10.2005) from a bootable CD but I had no luck:
 The system hung in three different flavours.
 
 1. I do not touch the keyboard. The monitor syncs one time after the
 banner and goes into a mad resolution: The characters are extremely
 small - I just can see (not read) the first line of the kernel
 load-process (something like "35357345/7453528234=234563563") and then,
 it hangs.
 
 2. I press <tab> after the banner and type manually 'boot fd0a:netbsd'.
 The monitor syncs approx. three times and I see a truncated
 kernel-load-process line (something like "234=234563563"). This time the
 characters are big and the font-color is blue.
 
 3. I press <tab> after the banner and type manually 'consdev com0'. I
 get the same banner again over com0. Then 'boot fd0a:netbsd' and the
 result looks like:
 
 **************************************************************
  >> NetBSD/i386 BIOS Boot, Revision 3.2
  >> (bogdanov@submit64, Thu Oct 27 13:16:54 CEST 2005)
  >> Memory: 640/515072 k
  > boot fd0a:netbsd
 booting fd0a:netbsd
 3788516|
 
 **************************************************************
 
 Hard hang.
 
 
 Should I update my BIOS?
 
 BTW: Linux boots trouble-free.
 
 
 Thank you and with kind regards,
 
 Petar