Thanks for that suggestion. I deleted the old "world" and re-untarred it
with the -p flag. No difference, however. But the boot messages did
confirm that there was a problem with permissions (apparently in /etc
and /var) so I experimentally set /etc to -R 777, and then I was able to
log in as root for the first time, with no password. I'll go back now
and fine tune. Unfortunately, dmesg isn't catching all of the
interesting error messages, or I would show them here.

-- David Robinson

On Tue, 2002-09-03 at 08:48, Andy R wrote:
> --- "David W. Robinson" <dwrob@gasou.edu> wrote:
> > I have installed Josh Tolbert's configuration of
> > NetBSD for the
> > Dreamcast, and it boots just fine. (The NFS server
> > is a Linux machine.)
> > For some reason, however, it won't let me login as
> > any of the default
> > users (root, toor, testuser). All of these are set
> > to allow login
> > without passwords, but something seems to be amiss. 
> > 
> > I'm not familiar with NetBSD. Am I overlooking
> > something obvious?				
> 
> I had a similar problem in the beginning. Some
> permissions in the "world" tarball got screwed up upon
> untarring (that's the best guess I have for now).
> After I untarred again as root, it worked. I used the
> "p" option as well but I didn't check to see that it
> made any difference.
> 
> Are you having this problem on the console or from ssh
> or both?
> 
> Andy
> 
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