does it write to dmesg? you could read that on the host drive, if not
maybe syslog?

Quoting dcdev@baux.dyndns.org (dcdev@baux.dyndns.org):
> Having a small problem with an obscured error.
> 
> I have gotten NetBSD to boot and to find it's address and root drive on my
> NFS/DHCP server. For the root drive i downloaded the hpcsh port (dated in
> january) and extracted it, then extracted the bin,sbin,usr.tgz files from
> the dreamcast port over it.
> 
> When it boots, It finds it's root drive, and immediately after that gives
> me an error, which due to the screen clipping, I can only see half of.
> 
> ???????? ?? /dev/console
> 
> Any idea what might cause this given my current configuration?
> 
> Kazriko RedClaw,
> Arkaic Arts Software.

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