Hey folks...

I've managed to get partially around my installation troubles by
the fact that I have a couple of Zip drives (one SCSI, for the Magnum,
and one USB, for my laptop).

However, booting the NetBSD kernel, I am losing:

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NetBSD 1.5_BETA (GENERIC) #1: Mon Oct 23 09:10:46 PDT 2000
    oster@sam:/u1/arc/usr/src/sys/arch/arc/compile/GENERIC
MIPS Magnum
total memory = 32768 KB
avail memory = 25272 KB
using 435 buffers containing 1740 KB of memory
mainbus0 (root)
cpu0 at mainbus0: MIPS R4000 CPU (0x422) Rev. 2.2 with MIPS R4010 FPC Rev. 0.0
cpu0: L1 cache: 8KB/32B instruction, 8KB/16B data, direct mapped
cpu0: No L2 cache
pica0 at mainbus0
aclock0 at pica0 slot 0 offset 0x0: mc146818 or compatible
lpt0 at pica0 slot 1 offset 0x0
fdc0 at pica0 slot 2 offset 0x0
fd0 at fdc0 drive 0: 1.44MB 80 cyl, 2 head, 18 sec
vxl at pica0 slot 4 offset 0x0 not configured
sn0 at pica0 slot 5 offset 0x0: bufsize 28480 address 00:00:6b:82:78:ba
asc0 at pica0 slot 6 offset 0x0: NCR53C94, target 7
scsibus0 at asc0: 8 targets, 8 luns per target
pckbc0 at pica0 slot 7 offset 0x0
pckbd0 at pckbc0 (kbd slot)
wskbd0 at pckbd0
pms0 at pckbc0 (aux slot)
wsmouse0 at pms0
pms at pica0 slot 8 offset 0x0 not configured
com0 at pica0 slot 9 offset 0x0: ns16550a, working fifo
com0: txfifo disabled
com0: console
com1 at pica0 slot 10 offset 0x0: ns16550a, working fifo
com1: txfifo disabled
isabr0 at mainbus0
isa0 at isabr0 isa_io_base 0xe2000000 isa_mem_base 0xe3000000
[ it hangs hard right here ]

I suppose I'll set up a cross compile environment and try and track it
down, but does anyone else have any ideas?

Also, unrelated, any reason we don't use the ARC console routines for
console I/O?

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        -- Jason R. Thorpe <thorpej@zembu.com>