Hi,

I'm having a strange problem installing NetBSD 3.1 from cd on an Ultra 5. I
boot using "boot cdrom" and everything loads fine, no errors or anything.
But once I get to the 'enter your terminal type' screen, I cannot type.
However, the keyboard is responsive because I can stop-a and get into ddb.

I'm sure I could get around this with a serial console, but the problem is
I'd like to use this machine as a temporary workstation - so I kind of need
the keyboard to work!

I've spoken with people in #netbsd on Freenode and have been assured that
they've had no problems installing on a U5 before. Included below is the
dmesg output from the FreeBSD 5.3 install currently on there. I'd really
appreciate any help or advice.

Copyright (c) 1992-2004 The FreeBSD Project.
Copyright (c) 1979, 1980, 1983, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994
        The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
FreeBSD 5.3-RELEASE #0: Fri Nov  5 19:30:40 UTC 2004
    root@bobbi.cse.buffalo.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC
Timecounter "tick" frequency 270000000 Hz quality 1000
real memory  = 268435456 (256 MB)
avail memory = 247955456 (236 MB)
cpu0: Sun Microsystems UltraSparc-IIi Processor (270.00 MHz CPU)
nexus0: <Open Firmware Nexus device>
pcib0: <U2P UPA-PCI bridge> on nexus0
pcib0: Sabre, impl 0, version 0, ign 0x7c0, bus A
pcib0: [FAST]
pcib0: [GIANT-LOCKED]
pcib0: [FAST]
pcib0: [GIANT-LOCKED]
pcib0 dvma: DVMA map: 0xc0000000 to 0xc3ffffff
pci0: <OFW PCI bus> on pcib0
pcib1: <APB PCI-PCI bridge> at device 1.1 on pci0
pci1: <OFW PCI bus> on pcib1
ebus0: <PCI-EBus2 bridge> mem 0xf1000000-0xf17fffff,0xf0000000-0xf0ffffff at
dev
ice 1.0 on pci1
ebus0: <auxio> addr
0x140072f000-0x140072f003,0x140072c000-0x140072c003,0x140072
a000-0x140072a003,0x1400728000-0x1400728003,0x1400726000-0x1400726003 (no
driver
 attached)
ebus0: <power> addr 0x1400724000-0x1400724003 irq 37 (no driver attached)
ebus0: <SUNW,pll> addr 0x1400504000-0x1400504002 (no driver attached)
sab0: <Siemens SAB 82532 v3.2> addr 0x1400400000-0x140040007f irq 43 on
ebus0
sab0: [FAST]
sabtty0: <ttya> on sab0
sabtty1: <ttyb> on sab0
ebus0: <su> addr 0x14003083f8-0x14003083ff irq 41 (no driver attached)
ebus0: <su> addr 0x14003062f8-0x14003062ff irq 42 (no driver attached)
ebus0: <ecpp> addr
0x1400700000-0x140070000f,0x140030015c-0x140030015d,0x1400304
3bc-0x14003043cb irq 34 (no driver attached)
ebus0: <fdthree> addr
0x1400720000-0x1400720003,0x1400706000-0x140070600f,0x1400
3023f0-0x14003023f7 irq 39 (no driver attached)
eeprom0: <EEPROM/clock> addr 0x1400000000-0x1400001fff on ebus0
eeprom0: model mk48t59
eeprom0: hostid 809eec04
ebus0: <flashprom> addr 0x1000000000-0x10000fffff (no driver attached)
ebus0: <SUNW,CS4231> addr
0x1400722000-0x1400722003,0x1400704000-0x140070400f,0x
1400702000-0x140070200f,0x1400200000-0x14002000ff irq 36,35 (no driver
attached)
hme0: <Sun HME 10/100 Ethernet> mem 0xe0000000-0xe0007fff at device 1.1 on
pci1
miibus0: <MII bus> on hme0
nsphy0: <DP83840 10/100 media interface> on miibus0
nsphy0:  10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, auto
hme0: Ethernet address: 08:00:20:9e:ec:04
hme0: if_start running deferred for Giant
hme0: [GIANT-LOCKED]
atapci0: <CMD 646 WDMA2 controller> port
0xc00020-0xc0002f,0xc00018-0xc0001b,0xc
00010-0xc00017,0xc00008-0xc0000b,0xc00000-0xc00007 at device 3.0 on pci1
ata2: channel #0 on atapci0
ata3: channel #1 on atapci0
pcib2: <APB PCI-PCI bridge> at device 1.0 on pci0
pci2: <OFW PCI bus> on pcib2
pci2: <old, non-VGA display device> at device 1.0 (no driver attached)
Timecounters tick every 10.000 msec
ad0: 14324MB <IBM-DTLA-307015/TX2DA50C> [29104/16/63] at ata2-master WDMA2
acd0: CDRW <CRD-8240B/1.24> at ata3-master PIO4
Mounting root from ufs:/dev/ad0a
Invalid time in real time clock.
Check and reset the date immediately!

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