Just to keep things interesting, I've had *very* good luck with
1.6.[12] on the E7520 based systems. The system has been booting off
the SATA drive and mucking extensively with Express. BTW, these are
the server version of the 900 series boards but use the same version
of MCH (I think).

On Sat, Nov 06, 2004 at 06:39:29AM +0100, Matthias Buelow wrote:
> Hi folks,
> 
> I've bought a new Dell PC and found out that NetBSD won't even boot on 
> it.  In particular, it seems that NetBSD has problems with one or more 
> of the following topics:
> 
>  - PCI-Express
>  - Serial ATA
>  - Intel On-Board NICs such as the EtherPro/100 on the 915G chipset
>  - (not to speak of any extras such as sound, which are irrelevant for 
> basic work)
> 
> Are plans underway to resolve these issues in the near future?  Perhaps 
> before the ultimate 2.0 release even?

-- 
Chuck Tuffli
Agilent Technologies