Re: NetBSD 6 amd64 Beta ISO - sysinst halts

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

On Fri, 30 Mar 2012 10:14:27 +0200
Martin Husemann <martin%duskware.de@localhost> wrote:

> On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 10:17:58PM +0000, Christos Zoulas wrote:
> > Does not seem to work properly; it is supposed to find its root
> > automatically (the memory filesystem). I'll burn one tonight or
> > this weekend and test it.
> 
> Not the memory FS, but the cdrom - however, as the list of available
> device does not offer "cd0", apparently the CD drive wasn't detected.
> 
> By chance, is the CD drive the only one on a ATA channel but
> configured as slave device? IIUC, this does not always work reliably.


The DVD drive is the only device on the ATA channel and is jumpered as
Master. The ATA cable, however, is quite a bit longer than a standard
cable so perhaps you are on to something. I will try with a standard
cable.