On Tue, Dec 10, 2002 at 05:26:36PM +0100, Matthias Drochner wrote:
> 
> Hi -
> just got an Ultra10 between my fingers and wanted to give NetBSD
> a try.
> I've downloaded the bootable 1.6 iso which was mentioned in the
> mailing list.
> It boots fine into sysinst, but when I try to get serious, strange
> things happen.
> 
> First I booted "boot cdrom -a", intending to choose ethernet
> as boot device and mounting an NFS root. I get the "root device:"
> prompt, but the keyboard didn't respond.
> So I've connected a second hard disk, as slave on the first
> IDE bus. Shows up as wd1, fine. Let sysinst install on it.
> (There is something wrong with DHCP configuration. dhclient
> got a response, but brings up the interface with 0.0.0.0.)
> Boot the freshly installed disk ("boot disk1"), but the boot
> device wasn't recognized appearently, so I ended up with the
> "root device:" prompt an a non-working keyboard.
> Also annoying: "more /kern/msgbuf" from sysinst doesn't give me
> anything.
> 
> Can someone give me a hint how to get this damn thing running
> quickly?

Set up a serial console, that seems the fastest, plug it to ttya
disconnect keyboard. Second that comes to mind is a custom kernel
with root on wd1.

	Andrey