Is there a debug version of the install kernel too which contains the symbol
information ?

I tried boot-small.fs and it booted fine and recognized the primary partitions
that I already created of FreeBSD and linux earlier. It tries to create a
disklabel in the netbsd partition and bails out with the error message ..

Set command: disklabel -r -w wd0 mydisk
wd0: Press any key to continue

Are ptys not available in boot-small.fs image ?
boot1.fs and boot2.fs combined is the same as the cd image which freezes the
system.

I used boot-tiny.fs to bypass the problem as it was doing PIOs rather than DMA
for hard disk. The installation went through with a little hitch.

The distribution sets gave an error message and it was too fast to capture the
message.

But I was able to boot from the netbsd partition, still I get this system
freeze. I guess there is an unhandled interrupt which is causing it.

If there is debug install kernel, probably I can get to the root cause of this
hang.

Any help is appreciated.

Thanks,
Srini.


--- JS <oghistorian@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Hi Shrini,
> 
> I am having almost the exact same problem, but with
> the cd-rom of my i386 Compaq during the 1.6.1 install
> boot.  Here is a link to my original message I posted
> to the port-i386 email list:
> 
> http://mail-index.netbsd.org/port-i386/2003/12/18/0025.html
> 
> The following error messages I get are repeated for at
> least 20 times with different numbers:
> 
> pciide0:1:1: recal timed out
> 
> wd1d: device timeout reading fsbn 0 (wd1 bn0; cn 0 tn
> 0 sn 0), retrying
> 
> pciide0:1:1: lost interrupt
>       type: ata tc_bcount: 512 tc_skip: 0
> 
> 
> It also mentions this once, at least:
> 
> wd1: dos partiton I/O error
> 
> Since you are having almost the same issue, I am
> wondering if this could be a bug in 1.6.1.  If anyone,
> else has any more info that can fix this problem, that
> would be great.
> 
> Thanks,
> J Silverman
> --- Srinivasa Kanduru <ksraghavan@yahoo.com> wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > The 1.6.1 install kernel hangs in the initial bootup
> > process on i386 machines
> > after giving the following error message
> > 
> > "
> > ...
> > pciide0:0:0: lost interrupt
> >     type: ata tc_bcount: 512 tc_skip: 0
> > pciide0:0:0: bus-master DMA error: missing
> > interrupt, status=0x21"
> > [hangs here]
> > "
> > 
> > This is happening with two systems I have. One has
> > Seagate Barracuda and the
> > other has Western Digital WD800.
> > 
> > There is an open bug filed against Netbsd 1.4
> > (#7807) with the above error
> > message, but it doesn't seem to freeze the system as
> > it does in my case. It
> > prints soft interrupt error messages and proceeds
> > further.
> > 
> > One of my friend also has seen this message with
> > 1.6.1.
> > 
> > Is there any fix for this problem or a list of known
> > hard disks which works ?
> > 
> > The ata page says that MFM, ESDI, IDE hard disks are
> > supported.
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > Srini.
> > 
> > 
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