On Tue, Dec 02, 2003 at 07:55:45PM +0100, Sebastien Erard wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I have some trouble booting NetBSD on my new P4C800-E Deluxe.
> I have two serial ata hard drives connected to the ICH5R SATA
> controller. Both work fine under WinXP.
> 
> I can boot NetBSD from the second drive (wd1) without trouble.
> I am then able to access all my partitions on the first drive,
> FAT32, NTFS and BSDs. But I can not boot NetBSD from the first
> drive (wd0), whatever the method I use (via GRUB or the native
> NetBSD MBR and second stage boot loader). THe system simply
> hangs, and I have to reboot it the hard way (reset switch,
> CTRl-ALT-DEL does not work). From the GRUB boot shell, I can
> even display the full partition table of the first drive, it
> hangs too.

What does fdisk say?
Which version of the netbsd boot code are you using?
Will the netbsd mbr code load winxp of the first disk?

	David

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