I just tried the latest snapshot from
ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/arch/sparc64/snapshot/20010114/
and followed instructions
ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/arch/sparc64/snapshot/20010114/INSTALL.html

'just works'. And it doesn't ask for root or dump.

	Andrey

On Wed, 28 Feb 2001, Collin Scott wrote:

> First off, Im fairly certain that this machine has a supported scsi
> device, but Im not sure which one it is ...
> From a semi working solaris install I followed the install instructions
> using the ramdisk.fs, and installed that on my swap partition.  I then
> rebooted the machine as stated, BSD begins to load untill I get to the
> section where it looks for the root/dump locations.  Looking at the
> archives I found one person who had simmilar errors and the solution was
> in his case to point at sd0* this does not work for me.  What does work is
> if I use sd0c for root and sd0c for dump with ffs as the file system.
> What then happens is
> 
> Clock warning...
> lookup /dev/console: error 20
> init: copying out flags '-s" 3
> ...
> exec /sbin/init.bak: error 20
> init: not found
> panic: no init
> kdb breakpoint at 0x12702d8
> Stopped init at cpu-debugger+0x4 nop
> 
> I have tried all of the possible configs as far as sd0 (a-h) and I am kind
> of stuck here.  Thanks
> collin
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