John,

Have you replaced the IDE flatcable?
My experience is, that when I am upgraded from the standar 4 GB to a 20 GB drive, I needed also to
"upgrade" the IDE flatcable to an EIDE flatcable.

regards,
Hans

John Hauser wrote:
> 
> i tried installing Netbsd from the CD referenced on this posting
> <http://mail-index.netbsd.org/port-cobalt/2003/07/16/0006.html>
> on a Qube2 with a 30gb maxtor drive and again with a 200gb western
> digital with the same results. here what comes over the serial port
> after the qube has rebooted.
> 
> Cobalt Microserver Diagnostics - 'We serve it, you surf it'
> Built Tue May 25 15:58:41 PDT 1999
> 
>   1.LCD Test................................PASS
>   2.Controller Test.........................PASS
>   5.Bank 0:.................................64M
>   6.Bank 1:.................................0M
>   7.Bank 2:.................................16M
>   8.Bank 3:.................................0M
>   9.Serial Test.............................PASS
> 10.PCI Expansion Slot....................**EMPTY**
> 12.IDE Test................................PASS
> 13.Ethernet Test...........................PASS
> 16.RTC Test................................PASS
> BOOTLOADER ramcode: selected partition /dev/hda1
> Decompressing done
> Executing bootloader kernel...
> Jump_to_Real_Kernel: disk error, trying BFD again
> BOOTLOADER ramcode: selected partition /dev/hdc1
> Decompressing - done
> Executing bootloader kernel...
> Jump_to_Real_Kernel: disk error, trying BFD again
> get_root_dev: nr_boot_failures 0x00000002 exceeds maxtries 0x00000002
> for boot_i
> ndex 0x00000000
> 
>   *** halting ***
> 
> i've successfully installed from this CD to a Raq2 (actually a Seagate
> NasRaq).
> 
> Any suggestions would be appreciated...
> 
> john

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