Asus V2-M3N8200 - NetBSD

Hardware info on main page.

This machine has the amd64 port of NetBSD installed, for testing purposes.

The first sata hard drive (ad4) is sliced up as follows:

slice 1 - 116 GB - a FreeBSD install (currently RELENG_7)
slice 2 - 116 GB - a FreeBSD install (currently 8.0-CURRENT)
slice 3 - 112 GB - NetBSD (currently 5.0 BETA)
slice 4 - 121 GB - Xubuntu (currently 8.10)

Because of Xubuntu, I use grub as boot loader.

Work log

2009-01-24: I configured and tested X (Xorg), and installed Xfce from pkgsrc. Just foollowed NetBSD guide, no problems.

2009-01-23: Ok, a snapshot of NetBSD 5.0 BETA (200901210002Z) installed without major problems. dmesg output. From /etc/rc.conf:

hostname=kg-v2.kg4.no
dhclient=YES
net_interfaces="nfe0"
ntpd=YES
sshd=YES

And pcictl shows this:

kg-v2# pcictl pci0 list
000:00:0: NVIDIA product 0x0754 (RAM memory, revision 0xa2)
000:01:0: NVIDIA product 0x075c (ISA bridge, revision 0xa2)
000:01:1: NVIDIA product 0x0752 (SMBus serial bus, revision 0xa1)
000:01:2: NVIDIA product 0x0751 (RAM memory, revision 0xa1)
000:01:3: NVIDIA product 0x0753 (Co-processor processor, revision 0xa2)
000:01:4: NVIDIA product 0x0568 (RAM memory, revision 0xa1)
000:02:0: NVIDIA product 0x077b (USB serial bus, interface 0x10, revision 0xa1)
000:02:1: NVIDIA product 0x077c (USB serial bus, interface 0x20, revision 0xa1)
000:04:0: NVIDIA product 0x077d (USB serial bus, interface 0x10, revision 0xa1)
000:04:1: NVIDIA product 0x077e (USB serial bus, interface 0x20, revision 0xa1)
000:06:0: NVIDIA nForce MCP77 ATA133 IDE Controller (IDE mass storage, interface 0x8a, revision 0xa1)
000:07:0: NVIDIA nForce MCP77 High Definition Audio Controller (multimedia subclass 0x03, revision 0xa1)
000:08:0: NVIDIA product 0x075a (PCI bridge, interface 0x01, revision 0xa1)
000:09:0: NVIDIA nForce MCP77 AHCI Controller (SATA mass storage, interface 0x01, revision 0xa2)
000:10:0: NVIDIA nForce MCP77 Gigabit Ethernet Controller (ethernet network, revision 0xa2)
000:16:0: NVIDIA product 0x0778 (PCI bridge, revision 0xa1)
000:18:0: NVIDIA product 0x075b (PCI bridge, revision 0xa1)
000:24:0: Advanced Micro Devices K8 AMD64 HyperTransport configuration (host bridge)
000:24:1: Advanced Micro Devices K8 AMD64 Address Map configuration (host bridge)
000:24:2: Advanced Micro Devices K8 AMD64 DRAM configuration (host bridge)
000:24:3: Advanced Micro Devices K8 AMD64 Miscellaneous configuration (host bridge)
kg-v2# pcictl pci1 list
kg-v2# pcictl pci2 list
002:00:0: NVIDIA product 0x0421 (VGA display, revision 0xa1)
kg-v2# pcictl pci3 list

Output from usbdevs:

kg-v2# usbdevs
addr 1: OHCI root hub, vendor 0x10de
 addr 2: PS2 to USB Converter, CHESEN
addr 1: EHCI root hub, vendor 0x10de
 addr 2: USB 2.0 Reader, Generic
addr 1: OHCI root hub, vendor 0x10de
addr 1: EHCI root hub, vendor 0x10de

2009-01-23: I tried a snapshot of NetBSD 4 (200901210002Z), but it just rebooted in the middle of the boot.. No go.

2009-01-22: I tried to install NetBSD 4.0.1 / amd64, but the boot hung after printing the ahcisata0... line. I disabled acpi (with userconf), and that allowed the boot to progress further. Then it got busy printing a lot of timeout / communication errors for the first pata disk drive. I disabled pciide* (with userconf) and this time the boot got to the install menu. Only one problem: it detected my 500GB stta disk drive as 69MB(!). Partitioning the disk seemed to work, but labeleing the disk complained that partitions were beyond the end of the disk and failed. I tried NetBSD 4.0 (both amd64 and i386) - same story.