Ok, thanks much.  So this means I need a kernel with ACPI_PCI_FIXUP
enabled, but unfortunately since the installer doesn't even boot,
recompiling the kernel becomes rather hard.  Does anyone have an AMD64
kernel binary with ACPI_PCI_FIXUP enabled they would be willing to
point me to?

On Mon, 14 Mar 2005 22:21:23 +0100, Manuel Bouyer
<bouyer@antioche.eu.org> wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 14, 2005 at 12:10:58AM -0500, Chris Allegretta wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> >       I am trying to install NetBSD 2.0 on an HP 736N (amd64) box.
> > The boot eventually hangs; here is a copy of the error (apologies for
> > typos, as I cant get the install to proceed I had to copy down the
> > error by hand):
> >
> > siside0:0:0: lost interrupt
> >     type: ata tc_bcount: 512, tc_sckip: 0
> > siside0:0:0: bus-master DMA error: missing interrupt, status=0x21
> > siside0:0:0: device timeout, c_bcount=512, c_skip0
> > wd0: transfer error, downgrading to PIO mode 4
> > wd0(siside0:0:0): using PIO mode 4
> > wd0d: device timeout reading fsbn0 (wd0 bn 0, tn 0, sn 0), retrying.
> >
> > This happens with both the i386 and amd64 builds on this machine.  I
> > did attach a boot log from FreeBSD which I have been using on the
> > machine in the meantime, as FreeBSD and Linux seem to work fine and
> > without complaint, so I did not suspect a hardware issue at this
> > point.  Has anyone run into this?
> 
> Looks like an interrupt routing issue. I don't remember the details, but
> there are other messages on this list about this, and how to workaround.
> Check the archives.
> 
> --
> Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
>      NetBSD: 26 ans d'experience feront toujours la difference
> --
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