On Sat, Apr 14, 2001 at 03:01:29PM -0400, Francois Landry wrote:
> Hello!
> 
> I have a problem with the installation of NetBSD 1.5 i386.
> 
> I tried on another i386 system with the same media and media is OK.
> I also installed NetBSD on my Amiga successfully so I can get more technical if needed.
> 
> My machine:
> AMD K6-2 300
> AOpen AX59 Pro motherboard (july 2000 bios)
> 64 MB RAM
> AWE 64
> Acer NE2k nic
> Linksys LNE100tx nic
> Linksys HPN 100 nic
> ATI rage pro 8MB video card
> 
> ide0 master: Maxtor 40Mb with windows 98. 8Gig Fat32 primary, the rest in a logical partition itself divided in 4.
> ide0 slave: atapi cdrom
> ide1 master: HP 8210i CD writer
> ide1 slave: WD 6 Gig for NetBSD.
> 
> Boot disk kernel starts but hangs with hard drive light on at
> "md0: internal 2048k image area"
> 
> I could send the dmesg output if you need; I need to know how to get it through
> a serial console first...
> 
> >From what I gather, it could be an hard drive problem since it hangs right before displaying
> the partitions.
> 
> I can boot the OpenBSD floppy fine... I'd rather be using NetBSD.
> 
> Also, I tried removing the two linksys NICs and nothing changed.
> 
> I'm stuck and would welcome any help. If you need any more info I will 
> send it right away.

It's possible it's a HD/ATAPI problem. Could you try disconnecting devices to
find which one makes the machine hand ?

Do you know what chipset the machine has ?

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
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