On Wed Dec 01 1999 at 14:02:35 -0800, Ross Harvey wrote:

> > I tried to boot an AlphaStation 255/300 from the graphic console a while
> > ago using 1.4.1 boot floppies. The boot process worked fine almost until
> > the very end but froze totally after the attachment of mcclock. I didn't
> > have a serial console anywhere handy.
> >
> > Veego suggested that I should try using a -current bootfloppy to see if
> > the problem had been fixed there. Sure it did boot fine from the graphic
> > console without tweaking any SRM settings.
> >
> > I would like to know if this change has been pulled up to the
> > release-branch and will it therefore be available in 1.4.2? And if
> > someone happens to know what the fix actually was, I wouldn't mind
> > hearing about the either ;)
> 
> Good questions. I'm not sure what the change was either. A good next step
> would be if someone could check out netbsd-1-4 (perhaps just from the anon
> cvs tree) and build a 1.4.2-like install floppy for you. If it worked, we
> could stop worrying about it, otherwise it would be necessary to find out
> what the fix was.

Is anyone doing anything about this? I can do it myself also, hopefully
the 1.4 bootfloppies will build on a -current system.

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