>A similar thing happened for me.
>
>>This is not really a show stopper but I would like to have some
>>bootable floppies just in case things go AFU.
>
>To a degree, I think it is a show stopper.
>
>>BTW my I have one single 5.25" floppy drive in my system FWIW.
>
>I never got 1.1 to boot on my 486DX/33 until I put 3.5" floppy drive
>for drive fd0. 
>
>In looking at where it paniced, I think it had a problem with mounting
>the root device when it is a 5.25" floppy drive.  I couldn't be sure
>because it reboots so fast after a panic.

I've seen this as well.  What happens is that if you _boot_ off of some
5.25" drives, the kernel can't probe it.  If you don't have another floppy,
the machine panics, because it can't mount the root device.

I haven't sent a PR in on it yet because the machine I had the problem on
can't run any NetBSD version dated after mid-October :-(  I _think_ that
if the floppy probe sequence is made more robust, then it might solve the
problem.

--Ken