John, I don't know if you have resolved this issue, but I had a similar issue on an AMD FX-6300 (Six-Core). I had the BIOS setting for SATA configuration set to IDE. When I changed the setting to AHCI it worked like a charm.
I did install FreeBSD, PCBSD, DragonFly BSD, OpenBSD and Mint Linux successfully. Yah, over kill, but I wanted to be sure the drive and controller worked. r0n ge0rgia Ron Georgia <http://www.linkedin.com/in/rongeorgia> ================ John 13:23 ================ *Innovate to Dominate * On Sat, Feb 7, 2015 at 6:15 PM, John Refling <[email protected]> wrote: > Still have the same problem as here: > > > > http://mail-index.netbsd.org/netbsd-users/2013/12/07/msg013685.html > > > > with 6.1.5, after install from CD, on boot get: > > > > “open netbsd: no such file or directory” > > > > The disk had FreeBSD on it and zeroing out the first part of the disk did > not help on multiple reinstall attempts. > > > > ONLY AFTER ZEROING ENTIRE DISK USING COMMAND FROM INSTALL CD BEFORE > INSTALL HELPED: > > > > dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/rwd0d bs=10m > > > > WHY IS THIS ???? Even when I zeroed out the first part of the disk > (presumably the partition table info) and rebooting (to remove any inkernel > memory of old partition table info) the install failed. > > > > Had to zero ENTIRE disk. > > > > Also, the first attempt to install NetBSD after FreeBSD resulted in newfs > failing since “device was busy”… I wonder if dk (disk wedge controller) was > controlling part of the disk and interfering with newfs and partitioning. > > > > The install program should be able to start with fresh info and create > fresh bootable partition and turn off drivers that interfere with that. > > > > John Refling > > >
