On Sat, Apr 23, 2005 at 11:33:46PM +0200, malebe@numericable.fr wrote:
> On Saturday, 23 April 2005 at 13:28:01 +0200, Manuel Bouyer wrote:
> > How different is the 600E from the 600X ? I have a 600E which boot fine.
> 
> I found this:
> Difference is in the modem hardware:
> the 600X have an LT modem (PCI device).
> the 600&600E have an Mware Digital Signal Processor (DSP)
> which implements an Advanced Communication Processor (ACP)
> modem. The Mware modem is an ISA device.
> 
> 
> > Can you try a 3.0_BETA snapshot from
> > ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/i386/snapshot/ ?
> 
> Unfortunately, i have the same messages:
> 
> -----------------------------------
> NetBSD/i386 ustarfs Primary Bootstrap
> 
> >> NetBSD/i386 BIOS Boot, Revision 3.2
> >> (bouyer@pop.lip6.fr, Fri Apr 8 04:57:53 CEST 2005)
> >> Memory: 638/195392 k
> Press return to boot now, any other key for boot menu
> booting hd11a:netbsd - starting in 0
> type "?" or "help" for help.
> ---------------------------------
> I type boot 
> then:
> -----------------------------------
> 2461888+(?? number, so fast)

You mean, you're booting from floppy, and the number pass too fast ?
From floppy is should be slow, maybe your floppy is bad ?

Also I didn't try booting by 600E from floppy, I don't have a floppy drive.
It boots fine from hard disk.

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
     NetBSD: 26 ans d'experience feront toujours la difference
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