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Subject:    NetBSD 20111208-0740Z AMD64 snapshot primary bootstrap hangs/reboots
From:       "Saifi Khan" <saifikhan () datasynergy ! org>
Date:       2011-12-13 11:22:45
Message-ID: op.v6fdb7p51gcqdp () gladiator
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Hi:

Downloaded the latest available NetBSD snapshot 20111208-0740Z for AMD64 \
architecture.

On powering up the device, the CD is loaded and the NetBSD/x86 cd9660 Primary \
Bootstrap is executed.

The following lines are displayed.

NetBSD/x86 cd9660 Primary Bootstrap

> > NetBSD/x86 BIOS Boot, Revision 5.9 (from NetBSD 5.99.58)
> > Memory: 639/1964800 k
Press return to boot now, any other key for boot menu
booting cd0a:netbsd - starting in 0 seconds,
12022224+626856+591480 [819288+541140]=0xeee3a0
/

Subsequently, either the installer hangs (observed with boot.iso) or it just reboots \
the system (observed with amd64cd.iso).

Identical behaviour has been observed with the snapshots for Deember 8, 9 and 10th as \
well.

One would expect such issues with new hardware or fancy option settings. In my case, \
i'm trying out NetBSD on ASUS M2N-MX SE+ board with AMD Athlon64 X2 dual core \
processor and 2G DDR2 memory.

The IDE configuration is as follows:
Onboard IDE controller - Disabled
Serial-ATA Devices - Device 0
nVidia RAID function - Disabled

Tweaking the BIOS settings related to ACPI (v1|v2|v3) and ACPI-APIC (enable|disable) \
have no impact.

Even with a work-in-progress (NetBSD 5.99.58) since NetBSD 5.1 release in November \
2010 (more than a year ago), the installer should be stable. This is all the more \
surprising since both NetBSD 5.99.38 and NetBSD 5.99.48 boot up fine and install \
without any issues. OpenSolaris and Gentoo LiveCD boot up fine.

Any suggestions, how do I go about fixing the issue or a possibility of a workaround \
?

-- 
thanks
Saifi.


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