argh! it was an even longer shot; the jumper on the maxtor disk wasn't
set to master. i'm too used to the western digital method of not using
a jumper if it's a single disk. with this maxtor (33073h3), you *must*
have the j50 jumper set.

thank you for your suggestion of using the original cobalt restore cd.
i spent about 2 hours with it exhibiting the same behavior; the
netboot install would work but then when the qube was rebooted, it
would hang with "starting up" displayed on the lcd.

i finally figured out that it was the jumper. it didn't help that i
had stuck the jumper in the same position as it's on all of my wd
disks and kept checking it. but the drive label plainly indicated that
pin j50 should be jumpered for a single/master drive. of course, it
didn't indicate *which* set of pins was j50. had to go to the web for
that :^)

thanks again for your suggestion...

john

NetBSD 1.6 (GENERIC) #0: Fri Nov 8 00:03:19 CET 2002

Welcome to NetBSD!

Terminal type is vt100.
# df
Filesystem  1K-blocks     Used     Avail Capacity  Mounted on
/dev/wd0a    26784540   199548  25245764     0%    /
/dev/wd0f     2064758      224   1961296     0%    /var
/dev/wd0g      497199        1    472338     0%    /tmp



Hans Van Der Linde wrote:
> It might be a long shot, but maybe it is worth to use the original Cobalt restore cd, just to check if the installation process continues.
> 
> reghards,
> hans
> 
> met vriendelijke groet/Best regards
> Hans van der Linde
> Proactive Technical Analyst
> Sun Microsystems B.V.
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: John Hauser <jhauser@pobox.com>
> Date: Tuesday, July 22, 2003 4:35 pm
> Subject: Re: problem using the NetBSD/cobalt CD image
> 
> 
>>yes, i forgot to mention that i was using a new 80 pin EIDE cable 
>>and a 
>>power cable extension during the two attempts.
>>john
>>
>>Hans Van Der Linde wrote:
>>
>>>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
>>>><" target="l">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
>>>
>>>
>>
>>