>What does fdisk say?
fdisk reports a BIOS geometry of 1024/16/63 for the first disk
and 1023/255/63 for the second one (NetBSD geometry is the same
238216/16/63). This causes the NetBSD partition not to begin on
a cylinder boundry on the first disk.

>Which version of the netbsd boot code are you using?
NetBSD current, build from the releng server, 22 nov
>Will the netbsd mbr code load winxp of the first disk?
Not tessted yet.

Thanks for your support,
Sebastien

----Original Message Follows----
From: David Laight <david@l8s.co.uk>
To: Sebastien Erard <sebastien_erard@hotmail.com>
CC: port-i386@netbsd.org, Sebastien.Erard@nagra.com
Subject: Re: Boot isues with SATA drives on P4C800-E Deluxe

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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David Laight: david@l8s.co.uk

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