On Fri, May 12, 2000 at 03:43:40PM -0500, Frederick Bruckman wrote:
> Sure, if it works. I've seen it that the mbr was so corrupted, it
> wouldn't even boot from floppy, even though the floppy was listed
> first. I fixed it by unplugging the power from the drive (to boot),
> and powering it up only after starting the formatter utility. That
> couldn't work in NetBSD, I think.

One thing you can do for NetBSD: unplung the drive power connector and boot
from floppy. When the kenrel start being loaded from floppy, plug the
power connector back. The drive should have the time to power up before 
kernel probes it.

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
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