Re: NetBSD 6 amd64 Beta ISO - sysinst halts

[Gerard Lally <gerard%netmail.ie@localhost>]

On Fri, 30 Mar 2012 10:14:27 +0200
Martin Husemann <martin%duskware.de@localhost> wrote:

> On Thu, Mar 29, 2012 at 10:17:58PM +0000, Christos Zoulas wrote:
> > Does not seem to work properly; it is supposed to find its root
> > automatically (the memory filesystem). I'll burn one tonight or
> > this weekend and test it.
> 
> Not the memory FS, but the cdrom - however, as the list of available
> device does not offer "cd0", apparently the CD drive wasn't detected.
> 
> By chance, is the CD drive the only one on a ATA channel but
> configured as slave device? IIUC, this does not always work reliably.


Well that's quite excellent detective work Martin. Sure enough I booted
from a USB DVD drive instead and I had no problems. Perhaps NetBSD has
exposed a bug in my other DVD drive?

Thanks to you and Christos most sincerely. I can't tell you how
disappointed I was after the long wait for 6!

:)