Hi, I am having a problem installing NetBSD/amd64 2.0 on my system. I have
an AMD Athlon 64 3200+ processor, an MSI K8TM-ILSR motherboard, and a WD
Raptor 36GB SATA disk. I boot the install system, and as the kernel
message go by, I see an error right after detecting the hard drive (it
also hangs at this point for a second). After the kernel is done loading,
I hit ‘enter’ for English, ‘enter’ to install NetBSD to disk, and yes to
continue at which point it hangs for a few seconds, I then get the
following messages which are the ones similar to when the system was
booting up…



viaide0:0:0: lost interrupt

type: ata tc_bcount: 512 tc_skip: 0

viaide0:0:0: lost interrupt

type: ata tc_bcount: 512 tc_skip: 0

viaide0:0:0: lost interrupt

type: ata tc_bcount: 512 tc_skip: 0

viaide0:0:0: lost interrupt

type: ata tc_bcount: 0 tc_skip: 0


When I get to the 'disk setup' section of the install program, I get a lot
of those messages (similar to above) and its really slow to advance to the
next step. It seems to start creating the filesystems, but it is VERY
slow... I left it over night just for the hell of it, and it barely got
anywhere! =)
This particular board is using the VIA VT8237 chip. I have Google’d around
on the mailing list archives and the ‘net a little bit, but I couldn’t
really find anything useful.

Thanks for your time.



Marc