Re: Installing NetBSD to an SD card on eBox

Hi Andrius,

thanks for the answer. Sadly, I get the error both with native mode 
and legacy mode. The power adapter is the original one, so I've been 
told. I don't have a full size SD card, but I've tested the card 
adapter and the microSD card by booting the OpenBSD installer from it 
(and installing successfully to a different card; so I have a working 
system now, it's just that I would have slightly preferred NetBSD), 
and also by booting Gentoo from another card and verifying with lsblk 
that it sees the disk (I didn't proceed with the installation due to 
lack of time and experience). Earlier, I also was able to reproduce 
almost the same error message with the OpenBSD install disk (maybe the 
line breaks and a few other details were a bit different), but I 
didn't write the BIOS settings down, and the error disappeared after 
resetting to optimal defaults.

Regards
Stanislav

On Mo, 31 Okt 2022 20:24:18 +0200
  Andrius V <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi,
> 
>> 'wd0d: device timeout reading fsbn 0 (wd0 bn 0; cn 0 tn 0 sn 0),
>> retrying'
>> rdcide0:0:0: lost interrupt
>>         type: ata tc_bcount: 512 tc_skip: 0
>>
> 
> Regarding this error, you may try to switch IDE mode from native to
> legacy in BIOS. It helps on my Vortex86DX3 platform. Reliability
> problems can be also related to either not enough power (wouldn't
> recommend to power it from another USB port, better to use USB power
> adapter) or SD card itself (better to use full size SD card instead 
>of
> microSD with adapter). However, I don't have MX based eBox, thus
> problems can be platform related...
> 
> Regards,
> Andrius V