[rescue] Sun Blade 100 and NetBSD

[Nick B.]

The sun blade's IDE controller is... erm, well I'll be polite and call it 
horribly broken.  Disable DMA, it may fix your issues.
	Nick
On Mon, Apr 24, 2006 at 01:18:41AM -0400, Sridhar Ayengar wrote:
> I just got around to upgrading the firmware on my Sun Blade 100 from 
> 4.0.1 to 4.17.1.
> 
> Before, I would get random hangs while sysinst was unpacking the 
> tarballs.  Now I can't even get sysinst to come up.  The system is 
> hanging up at:
> 
> root file system type: ffs
> 
> Solaris 10 seems to work fine.  I would appreciate any help.
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> Peace...  Sridhar
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