On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 8:58 AM, Ray Phillips <r.phillips%uq.edu.au@localhost> wrote:I thought I'd report that I had access to a Dell Dimension 3100 briefly recently and discovered it isn't possible to install NetBSD/i386 on it, even a -current version which was CVS updated on 13 March 2009. The problem seems to be with the USB driver. The symptom is the probing of system devices during booting stops at this stage:Try disabling the azalia driver (or ehci if that one is not present). Boot the installer using 'boot -c' (stop the automatic boot at the boot loader and type that) so that it drops into userconf. From there, disable the driver using "disable azalia" or "disable azalia*"; can't remember the exact syntax. Then quit userconf and see if the system boots. After installation, you'll need to do that again... If it is the problem I'm thinking about, your system is sharing an IRQ among several drivers and one of them is messing things up. In the case of my dell machine, the faulty one is azalia. You can either go with no sound or with no USB 2.0 support (by disabling azalia or ehci respectively).
Thanks Julio but unfortunately that didn't help. When I disabled the azalia driver this was the result: uc> disable azalia [310] azalia* disabled uc> exit [..] and there was no apparent difference from when booting normally. When ehci was disabled: uc> disable ehci [224] ehci* disabled [225] ehci* disabled uc> quit [..] wsmouse0 at ums0 mux 0 uhidev1 at uhub1 port 1 configuration 1 interface 0 uhidev1: Logitech Logitech USB Keyboard, rev 1.10/20.00, addr 2. iclass 3/1 ukbd0 at uhidev1 wskbd1 at ukbd0 mux 1 atapibus0 at atabus0: 2 targets cd0 at atapibus0 drive 0: <PHILIPS DVD+/-RW DVD8801, MY0M9753701595C8019, 5D24> cdrom removable wd0 at atabus1 drive0: <WDC WD1600JS-75NCB1> wd0: 149 GB, 310019 cyl, 16 head, 63 sec, 512 bytes/sect x 312500000 sectors Kernelized RAIDframe activated pad0: outputs: 44100Hz, 16-bit, stereo audio1 at pad0: half duplix boot device: cd0 root on cd0a dumps on cd0b root file system type: cd9660 warning: no /dev/console exec /sbin/init: error 2 init: trying /sbin/oinit exec /sbin/oinit: error 2 init: trying /sbin/init.bak exec /sbin/init.bak: error 2 init path (default /sbin/init): At which point the keyboard didn't respond. When both azalia and ehci were disabled: uc> disable azalia [310] azalia* disabled uc> disable ehci [224] ehci* disabled [225] ehci* disabled uc> exit [..] and the result was the same as when just ehci was disabled. Ray