Subject: Re: NetBSD-2.0 Install CD does not boot on Dell
To: Feico Dillema <feico@pasta.cs.uit.no>
From: James Chacon <jmc@NetBSD.org>
List: port-i386
Date: 12/21/2004 08:07:26
On Tue, Dec 21, 2004 at 03:05:13PM +0100, Feico Dillema wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 21, 2004 at 02:46:29PM +0100, Martin Husemann wrote:
> > On Tue, Dec 21, 2004 at 12:54:12PM +0100, Feico Dillema wrote:
> > > But really, the ISOs available from ftp.netbsd.org
> > > should have more recent bootloaders!
> > 
> > Please explain in more details, it's not clear what you did that made it boot
> > for you. A -current bootloader works but 2.0 does not? That would be a good
> > reason to file a PR.
> 
> I got it to boot using floppydisks (boot1.fs and boot2.fs), so I didn't get it
> to boot from CD. The 2.0 CD does not boot at all on the machine. The 2.0 LiveCD
> does boot but uses the Grub bootloader. Emails from others (see CC:) suggest
> that a -current bootloader does boot on this type of machine, but I haven't been
> able to try yet.

If you booted it using the floppy images from the 2.0 release, thats the
exact same bootloader used on the cdrom. (It's just booting the big floppy
image)

James