Quentin Garnier wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 03, 2006 at 10:31:15AM -0600, John R. Shannon wrote:
>> John R. Shannon wrote:
>>> Are there any known problems booting NetBSD 3.0 from a SATA drive 
>>> attached to na Intel ICH6 controller?
>>>
>> I pirated a LSI Megaraid 150-4 from another system and NetBSD install 
>> and works with this controller. So, it appears that the problem is the 
>> ICH-6 controller.
> 
> That's one big assumption.  I can tell NetBSD has no trouble on almost
> all of ICH[567]R? I came across.  Even stuff like the 6300ESB which is
> mostly an ICH5R.
> 
> The problem is elsewhere, but without a proper description of what the
> problem is, there is little than can be done to help.
> 


The problem is that, after installing NetBSD 3.0, I get:

NetBSD MBR boot
Error No Operating System

If I boot off an installation CD and mount /dev/wd0a /mnt, everything 
that should be there is there. If I cp /usr/mdec/boot to /mnt and 
installboot /dev/rwd0a /usr/mdec/bootxx_ffsv1, and try to reboot from 
the hard drive, I get:

Boot failed (errno 2): Can't open /boot

fdisk:
0: NetBSD (sysid 169)
    start 63, size 145226049
others unused

disklabel:
a: 525168          63   4.2BSD    1024   8192 43768
b: 2097648     525231   swap
c: 145226049       63
d: 145226112        0
e: 20972448   2622879   4.2BSD    2048 16384 28096
f:  2097648  23595327   4.2BSD    2048 16384 21872
g:119533137  25692975   4.2BSD    2048 16384 28738

All partitions are ffsv1.

Also, I can't boot hd0a:netbsd from the installation cd bootloader.

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John R. Shannon, CISSP
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