Subject: Re: NetBSD 2.0 install hangs
To: None <port-i386@NetBSD.org>
From: Jeff Rizzo <riz@tastylime.net>
List: port-i386
Date: 01/09/2005 13:08:31
Frederick Bruckman wrote:

>In article <e5de4a30501081008111192ec@mail.gmail.com>,
>	Avtar Gill <avtargill@gmail.com> writes:
>  
>
>>I am trying to install the NetBSD 2.0 release on a computer which has
>>an Intel D915GEV desktop board.  When I boot using the install CD, the
>>boot process stalls at a line which states "wd0 at atabus1 drive 0".
>>The box contains a Western Digital Caviar SE Serial ATA 7200 RPM 250GB
>>hard drive.
>>
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>>
>The Intel D915GEV has an ICH6 ata chip?  Manuel Bouyer recently
>added support for that to current. I suggest your best bet, for
>something that new, would be to run and track current, targetting
>NetBSD 3.0.  Unfortunately, releng's autobuild machine took a
>powder late last year, and there do not seem to be any current
>snapshots available to download.
>
>
>  
>

Just as an FYI, I periodically compile -current for i386, and make the 
result available as an ISO, for any who care to download, at 
http://www.tastylime.net/netbsd/ .

The most recent at the moment is from early January, but I'll probably 
be building another next week.

+j