Well, I've been looking some more for similar cases, and I am starting to
wonder if it is something to do with APIC? When installing Gentoo Linux on
this machine, I have to pass the 'noapic' option at boot time, otherwise
the system acts really flakey.
Is there a way to pass a similar boot-time-option to NetBSD? Or do I have
to create a custom boot disk/CD with APIC disabled in the kernel to test
this theory?
And I guess if this does turn out to be an issue with APIC... is this a
bug with NetBSD? I have used the i386 port of NetBSD 2.0 on this same
system and it works fine.
Thanks in advance for any help.

Marc


> 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