Tonight, for the first time, I got a NetBSD/arm26 machine to start up with
root on a local disc.  It's a lot faster than NFS, I can tell you.

[ using 105644 bytes of netbsd ELF symbol table ]
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NetBSD 1.5V (LUNDY) #17: Mon May 28 22:33:59 BST 2001
    bjh21@viking:/opt/netbsd/src/sys/arch/arm26/compile/LUNDY
total memory = 8192 KB
avail memory = 5600 KB
using 16 buffers containing 512 KB of memory
cpu0 (root): ARM3 (rev. 0), cache enabled
iobus0 (root)
ioc0 at iobus0 base 0x200000
iic0 at ioc0
rtc0 at iic0 addr 0xa0: PCF8583, 32.768 kHz clock
latches0 at ioc0 bank 5
arckbd0 at ioc0 bank 0 offset 0x04
arcwskbd0 at arckbd0
wskbd0 at arcwskbd0: console keyboard
arcwsmouse0 at arckbd0
wsmouse0 at arcwsmouse0
arcpp0 at ioc0 bank 5
podulebus0 at ioc0 bank 4
hcsc0 at podulebus0 slot 0: host ID 7
scsibus0 at hcsc0: 8 targets, 8 luns per target
ea0 at podulebus0 slot 1: address 00:02:07:01:08:30, SEEQ 8005
ea0: 64KB packet memory, txbuf=2KB (1 buffers), rxbuf=62KB
arcvideo0 (root)
wsdisplay0 at arcvideo0: console (arccons, vt100 emulation), using wskbd0
arckbd0: layout 1
cpu0: 10000 loops in 1669 microseconds, delay factor = 1
scsibus0: waiting 2 seconds for devices to settle...
sd0 at scsibus0 target 0 lun 0: <QUANTUM, LP40S  940409404, 2.9> SCSI2 0/direct fixed
sd0: 41046 KB, 928 cyl, 2 head, 44 sec, 512 bytes/sect x 82092 sectors
sd0: async, 8-bit transfers
root device: sd0a
dump device (default sd0b):
file system (default generic):
root on sd0a dumps on sd0b
cpu_dumpconf: Doing something here would be useful
mountroot: trying nfs...
mountroot: trying ffs...
root file system type: ffs
init: copying out flags `-s' 3
init: copying out path `/sbin/init' 11

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Ben Harris                                                   <bjh21@netbsd.org>
Portmaster, NetBSD/arm26               <URL:http://www.netbsd.org/Ports/arm26/>