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

From: Teemu Rinta-aho <teemu@rinta-aho.org>
To: Petar Bogdanovic <p+netbsd@2005.smokva.net>
Cc: gavan@coolfactor.org, rumble@ephemeral.org,
	tom@insolvencyhelp.org, rasputnik@hellooperator.net,
	cpghost@cordula.ws, roman.karuschka@cryptographic.de,
	gnats-bugs@netbsd.org
Subject: Re: port-i386/26007
Date: Fri, 28 Oct 2005 09:02:43 +0300

 Try this (from Gavan Fantom, I haven't had time for it yet):
 
 ===
 Hi folks,
 
 Please try out this patch:
 
 http://frog.coolfactor.org/~gavan/epia_hack.diff
 
 See also my mail to port-i386:
 
 http://mail-index.netbsd.org/port-i386/2005/05/04/0007.html
 
 Please let me know if this patch works for you.
 ===
 
 Another option, which I did, is that I installed
 NetBSD 1.6 from a CD-ROM, after which I just updated
 it to current, except the boot sector of course :-)
 
 Teemu
 
 Petar Bogdanovic wrote:
 > 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
 > 
 > 
 
 
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