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

From: Urban Boquist <urban@boquist.net>
To: Petar Bogdanovic <p+netbsd@2005.smokva.net>
Cc: gnats-bugs@netbsd.org, gavan@netbsd.org, gnats-admin@netbsd.org,
	netbsd-bugs@netbsd.org
Subject: Re: port-i386/26007
Date: Fri, 28 Oct 2005 08:32:28 +0200

 >>>>> Petar Bogdanovic writes:
 
 Petar> David Laight wrote:
 >> Can you try booting install-tiny?  or maybe one of the small,
 >> ramdisk-free kernels?  (they should get as far as failing to find
 >> init)
 
 Petar> David, thanks a million - boot-tiny.fs works!
 
 Petar> I assume that my problem had nothing to do with
 Petar> port-i386/26007, so I'll transform my concern into a feedback:
 
 Actually, I think your problem is most probably the same as 26007. The
 problem now, I think, is that the work-around Gavan committed in
 August works for some people but not for all (which he also noted in
 the commit message).
 
 FWIW I also have an (older) VIA cpu machine that exhibits very similar
 symptoms; very early in boot the display goes either very weird, or
 completely black, or the text size gets very small. In all cases it
 hangs hard. Interestingly Gavan's change helped i bit in that it can
 now boot from floppy, but the same boot blocks booting from a CD still
 hangs... ;-(
 
 I've tried modifying Gavan's changes, inserting more jumps and more
 nop:s to try to get this machine to boot from CD too, but nothing I do
 seems to help.
 
 What's even more depressing is that NetBSD 1.6.x booted flawlessly on
 all these machines... ;-)
 
 Best regards,
 
         -- Urban