Hi Shrini,

I just wanted to let you know that after replacing the
cd-rom drive with another one, all the error messages
disappeared.  I am thinking since it did this that
maybe the problems are not so much caused by any
onboard hardware but more something with the
cd-rom/hard drive.

J Silverman
--- Srinivasa Kanduru <ksraghavan@yahoo.com> wrote:
> 
> 
> 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 ..
> 
> Status: failed: openpty() failed
> 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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