Re: NetBSD 6 amd64 Beta ISO - sysinst halts

[Gerard Lally <gerard%netmail.ie@localhost>]

On Thu, 29 Mar 2012 17:11:38 +0000 (UTC)
christos%astron.com@localhost (Christos Zoulas) wrote:

> In article <20120329174905.33ef7009%slackware.abalta.dnsalias.net@localhost>,
> Gerard Lally  <gerard%netmail.ie@localhost> wrote:
> >On Thu, 29 Mar 2012 18:09:03 +0200
> >Martin Husemann <martin%duskware.de@localhost> wrote:
> >
> >> On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 05:02:39PM +0100, Gerard Lally wrote:
> >> > boot device: unknown
> >> > root device: aibs0: warning under limit on 'CHASSIS FAN speed'
> >> 
> >> can you enter 
> >> 
> >>   ?
> >> 
> >> at this point and check what devices it offers?
> >
> >
> >The first time I tried this I had no response. I shut down (power
> >button works OK) and tried again and I got the following error:
> >
> >pckbport_start: command error
> >
> >Numlock responds but I can't type anything when this message appears.
> >
> >I then paged back through the boot messages and found this (I wrote
> >it all down):
> >
> >
> >ACPI Error: [\_PR_.CPU1._PSS] Nmaespace lookup failure, AE_NOT_FOUND
> >(20110623/PSARGS-392)
> >
> >ACPI Error: Method parse/execution failed [\_PR_.CPU2._PSS](Node
> >0xfffffe810e9a7260), AE_NOT_FOUND (20110623/psparse-560)
> >
> 
> Can you try boot -1 (disable acpi)?
> 
> christos
> 


Thanks. I got a bit further this time.

When it stops at root: I typed ? as Martin advised and this is what I
got:

Use one of: age0 wd0[a-p] wd1[a-p] wd2[a-p] fd0[a-p] ddb halt reboot

I chose wd0a (which is currently Slackware root) and I got the
following error:

vfs_mountroot: can't open root device
Cannot mount root, error=6

I have tried this with two disks which are both in healthy condition
running Slackware.

Perhaps I should zero out the disk and partition with gparted before
running install? Or do I even have a NetBSD install disk?

I downloaded the ISO from here:

http://nyftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD-daily/netbsd-6/201203270630Z/iso/

Is this an install ISO?