NetBSD Problem Report #47513

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From: jeffrey@tram.com
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Subject: HP DC5850 can't install - can't write MBR
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>Number:         47513
>Category:       install
>Synopsis:       HP DC5850 can't install - can't write MBR
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    install-manager
>State:          open
>Class:          support
>Submitter-Id:   net
>Arrival-Date:   Wed Jan 30 02:25:00 +0000 2013
>Last-Modified:  Wed Jan 30 14:55:03 +0000 2013
>Originator:     Jeff Bromberger
>Release:        6.0.1
>Organization:
>Environment:
AMD64 and i386 - uname never gets installed :-(
>Description:
Trying to install NetBSD 6.0.1 on a "New To Me" HP DC5850 AMD system.  Unit has 4Gb memory, have tried several SATA hard drives of various sizes.  Just up-flashed the BIOS to the most recent flavor as instructed in the main documents.

As it boots from CD (either the AMD or i386 images), it gets through the dmesg device messages, and then I see strings of these:
wd0d: device fault reading fsbn 0 (wd0 bn0; cn0 tn0 dn0), retrying
ixpide0:0:0 recal drive fault

I will see other fsbn errors as the process goes on until it tries to write the MBR, when it install stops completely and we go back to the main menu.

I have gone into the BIOS and changed every option there is.  Tried toggling all options at the disk and SATA levels.  Changed from Legacy mode IDE to Native mode IDE to AHCI RAID to no avail.

Any suggestions?
>How-To-Repeat:

>Fix:

>Audit-Trail:
From: Martin Husemann <martin@duskware.de>
To: gnats-bugs@NetBSD.org
Cc: 
Subject: Re: install/47513: HP DC5850 can't install - can't write MBR
Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2013 10:24:16 +0100

 On Wed, Jan 30, 2013 at 02:25:00AM +0000, jeffrey@tram.com wrote:
 > As it boots from CD (either the AMD or i386 images), it gets through the dmesg device messages, and then I see strings of these:
 > wd0d: device fault reading fsbn 0 (wd0 bn0; cn0 tn0 dn0), retrying
 > ixpide0:0:0 recal drive fault

 Unless there is a driver bug this sounds like failing hardware - is
 there valuable content anywhere on the disk? If not, you could try to
 go to the shell from the utility menu and then do something like:

   dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/rwd0d bs=1m

 which will try to wipe the whole disk, and may trigger reallocation of bad
 sectors.

 Or just replace the disk and see if that helps. I would also recommend to
 switch the bios to AHCI mode.


 Martin

From: matthew green <mrg@eterna.com.au>
To: gnats-bugs@NetBSD.org, jeffrey@tram.com
Cc: install-manager@netbsd.org, gnats-admin@netbsd.org,
    netbsd-bugs@netbsd.org
Subject: re: install/47513: HP DC5850 can't install - can't write MBR
Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2013 00:47:27 +1100

 can you try switching the BIOS to use AHCI instead of IDE?
 that may fix the problem for you.


 .mrg.

From: "Jeffrey Bromberger" <jeffrey@tram.com>
To: <gnats-bugs@NetBSD.org>, <install-manager@NetBSD.org>,
        <gnats-admin@NetBSD.org>, <netbsd-bugs@NetBSD.org>
Cc: 
Subject: RE: install/47513: HP DC5850 can't install - can't write MBR
Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2013 09:51:31 -0500

 >  Unless there is a driver bug this sounds like failing hardware

 I doubt this.  I swapped in three disks, and managed to install 64-bit
 Windows 7 on all of them, just to prove to myself that this isn't =
 frazzled
 hardware.  Did this with a 500Gb disk, a 120Gb disk, and a 1Tb disk.  =
 All
 are "found" by the system, but the seek gets me nowhere.

 > If not, you could try to  go to the shell from the utility menu and =
 then
 do something like:
 > which will try to wipe the whole disk, and may trigger reallocation of =
 bad
 sectors.

 I will try this, but I have that sinking feeling nevertheless...
 =20
 > I would also recommend to  switch the bios to AHCI mode.

 I will do this again and try the dd command...
 =20
 J
 ---
 Jeffrey L. Bromberger
 jeffrey@tram.com

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