Hi,

I'm curious, did you change any settings in the BIOS, at any time, like to 
overclock the CPU?  If so, you might want to set the BIOS back to the 
default settings, and try again.

-Robert

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Manuel Bouyer" <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
To: "Karthik Subramanian" <karthik301176@gmail.com>
Cc: <port-amd64@NetBSD.org>; <netbsd-users@NetBSD.org>
Sent: Monday, July 04, 2005 8:21 PM
Subject: Re: NetBSD install fails on ASUS K8S-MX motherboard/AMD Athlon 
2800+


> On Mon, Jul 04, 2005 at 10:23:45AM +0530, Karthik Subramanian wrote:
>> Hi Folks,
>>
>> I'm a *total* NetBSD newbie, have some experience running linux.
>>
>> I'm trying to install NetBSD 2.0.2 (AMD64) / NetBSD 2.0 (i386) on my
>> box which has an ASUS K8S-MX motherboard
>> (http://www.asus.com/products4.aspx?l1=3&l2=14&l3=0&model=377&modelmenu=1).
>>
>> I seem to have exactly the same problem as msmith@edtech.mcc.edu, as
>> indicated in his email to port-amd64 on 02/10/2005, I get the
>> following messages when the NetBSD-2.0.2 (AMD64) install CD boots:
>>
>> >siside0:0:0: lost interrupt
>> >type: ata tc_bcount: 512 tc_skip: 0
>> >siside0:0:0: lost interrupt
>> >type: ata tc_bcount: 512 tc_skip: 0
>>
>> Trouble is, it hangs right there and proceeds no further for me.
>> What's more, I tried installing NetBSD-2.0 (the i386 port) to try and
>> see if it worked for me like it did for msmith - to no avail, that
>> install cd hung on the boot as well.
>>
>> I am at my wits end, I'm not able to run any OS on my box except MS-crap.
>> Could Someone please help! I would like to get NetBSD up and running on 
>> my box.
>
> Ca you try a 3.0_BETA kernel ? You have a snapshot of 3.0_BETA at
> ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD-daily/netbsd-3/200506230000Z/
>
> This may be something that was fixed last month.
>
> -- 
> Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
>     NetBSD: 26 ans d'experience feront toujours la difference
> --
>