Re: [problem] stop to run netbsd at "wd1(piixide1:0:0): using PIO mode 4, Ultra-DMA mode 6 (Ultra/133) (using DMA)"

["David Lord" <netbsd%lordynet.org@localhost>]

On 29 Dec 2008 at 17:39, wang_jiabo wrote:

> Hello, all :
>     I install NetBSD 4.0 on my machine, my device have 2 hard disk, one 
> is hda, another is sda
> my hda installed the Windows vista, sda installed the RHEL5.2 and NetBSD4.0.
> I used GRUB to startup my system.
>     my GRUB file is:
> 
> default=0
> timeout=5
> splashimage=(hd1,4)/grub/splash.xpm.gz
> hiddenmenu
> title Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (2.6.18-xx.el5)
>         root (hd1,4)
>         kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.18-xx.el5 ro root=LABEL=/1 rhgb quiet 
> crashkernel=128M@16M
>         initrd /initrd-2.6.18-xx.el5.img
> title NetBSD 4.0
>        rootnoverify (hd1,7)
>        chainloader  +1

What's output from RHEL 'fdisk -l' showing?
as NetBSD normally requires to be installed on a primary dos 
partition (unless I've missed that restriction having been dropped).

FWIW this is from my desktop that uses grub as bootloader.

Disk /dev/sda: 250.0 GB, 250059350016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 30401 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x00030d33

   Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks   Id  System
/dev/sda1               1         124      995998+  16  Hidden FAT16
/dev/sda2             125         619     3976087+   7  HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda3             620        4140    28282432+   5  Extended
/dev/sda4   *        4141       30401   210941482+  a9  NetBSD
/dev/sda5             620         867     1992028+   6  FAT16
/dev/sda6   *         868         875       64228+  83  Linux
/dev/sda7             876         999      995998+   b  W95 FAT32
/dev/sda8            1000        2537    12353953+   c  W95 FAT32 (LBA)
/dev/sda9            2538        2661      995998+  82  Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda10           2662        4140    11880036   83  Linux

/boot/grub/menu.lst

## ## End Default Options ##

title           Ubuntu 8.04.1, kernel 2.6.24-22-generic
root            (hd0,5)
kernel          /vmlinuz-2.6.24-22-generic 
root=UUID=53f24f01-5ae9-482e-a38a-88018ef859c0 ro quiet splash
initrd          /initrd.img-2.6.24-22-generic
quiet

.........

### END DEBIAN AUTOMAGIC KERNELS LIST

# This is a divider, added to separate the menu items below from the Debian
# ones.
title           Other operating systems:
root

# This entry automatically added by the Debian installer for a non-linux OS
# on /dev/sda2
title           Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition
hide            (hd0,0)
unhide          (hd0,1)
root            (hd0,1)
savedefault
makeactive
chainloader     +1

# on /dev/sda1
title           ND7
hide            (hd0,1)
unhide          (hd0,0)
root            (hd0,0)
savedefault
makeactive
chainloader     +1

# on /dev/sda4
title           NetBSD
root            (hd0,3)
savedefault
makeactive
chainloader     +1

> title Other
>        rootnoverify (hd0,0)
>        chainloader   +1
> 
> RHEL and windows are no problem, I can use the systems,
> but when I startup the netbsd4.0, it is stopped at line 
> "wd1(piixide1:0:0): using PIO mode 4, Ultra-DMA mode 6 (Ultra/133) 
> (using DMA)"
> at line "wd0(piixide1:0:0): using PIO mode 4, Ultra-DMA mode 6 
> (Ultra/133) (using DMA) is no problem, passed.
>       
> 
>