Subject: NetBSD-1.3 Install Disk Hang
To: None <netbsd-help@NetBSD.ORG>
From: Phil Nelson <phil@cs.wwu.edu>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 01/16/1998 10:44:57
A friend has a problem getting the NetBSD-1.3 install disk to fully boot.

Hardware description:

	Processor:
		Pentium 586X166
	Memory:
		32megs
	SCSI Host Adapter:
		Adaptec AHA-1535A/AI
	CD-ROM Drive:
		Phillips CDD2000 / SCSI interface
	Sound Card:
		Turtle Beach TBS-2000
	Display Adapter:
		Diamond Stealth 3D 2000
	IDE Hard Disk Drives:
		Quantum Fireball_TM2110A
		Fujitsu M1638TAU
	Com Ports:
		16550AF/C/CF FIFO

The following is the boot sequence

----------------------------------
>>NetBSD/1386 BIOS BOOT, Rev 2.2
>>
>>Memory: 640/31744K

booting fd0a: netbsd - starting in 0
boot: fd0a; netbsd: no such file
booting fda0a: netbsd.gz
1146880 + 1622016 + 59452 + [67248 + 77054] =3D 0x2d5bee

NetBSD 1.3 (INSTALL) #0

CPU0:family 5 model 2 step c
CPU0:Intel Pentium (P54C) (586-class)
real mem =3D 33161216
avail mem =3D 29569024
using 430 buffers containing 1761280 bytes of mem
mainbus0 (root)
pci0 at mainbus0 bus 0: confing mode 1
pchb0 at pci0 dev 0 function 0
pchb0: vendor 0x8086 product 0x7030 (rev. 0x02)
pcib0 at pci0 dev 7 function 0
pcib0: vendor 0x8086 product 0x7000 (rev. 0x01)
vendor 0x8086 product 0x7010 (IDE mass storage, interface 0x80) at pci0 =
dev 7 fuction 1 not configured
vendor 0x5333 product 0x5631 (VGA display, revision 0x06) at pci0 dev 10 =
function 0 not configured
isa0 at pcib0
(bha probe): bha_cmd, cmd/data port empty 13
aha0 at isa0 port 0x330 - 0x333 irq 11 drq 6
aha 0: model AHA-1542CP. firmware G.0
aha0; unlocking mailbox interface
aha0; async, parity
scsibus0 at aha0: 8 targets
cd0 at scsibus0 targ2 lun0: <IMS, CDD2000/00, 1.26> SCSI2 5/cdrom =
removable

It hangs at this point. (Hang defined as more than 5 minutes with no
action.)

Has anyone else seen this and know what might be wrong?

-- 
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