Hi,

I have tried, as an exercise, to install NetBSD 2.1 on a Quadra 950.
The installation I've done consists of booting the netbsd install kernel
from MacOS with Booter 2.0 and then run the installation totally within
NetBSD via the serial console. Everything went ok until reboot.
After reboot I could not get to a login prompt. Instead of a login
prompt came only the message that the ttyE0 device was not present.
After that I have rebooted in single user mode and found out that in
my case (Quadra 950) the proper device is ttyZ0 (corresponds to the
zstty detected on QUADRA at boot time -- see /dev/MAKEDEV).

So I added the following line in /etc/ttys:

# Define the console that we actually run getty on.
ttyZ0   "/usr/libexec/getty Pc"         vt220   on secure

and rebooted. This time I've got the login prompt on the serial console.

NetBSD/mac68k (quadra950) (ttyZ0)

login:

after logging in as root:

quadra950# w
 9:53PM  up  2:02, 1 user, load averages: 0.67, 0.38, 0.85
USER    TTY FROM              LOGIN@  IDLE WHAT
root     Z0 -                 9:53PM     0 w

And now the Quadra is usable either over serial console or over network.
Maybe somebody could add this to /etc/ttys in repo?

Regards,

Gheorghe Ardelean.

P.S. Here is the dmesg form the Quadra:
Copyright (c) 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005
    The NetBSD Foundation, Inc.  All rights reserved.
Copyright (c) 1982, 1986, 1989, 1991, 1993
    The Regents of the University of California.  All rights reserved.

NetBSD 2.1 (GENERIC) #0: Mon Oct 24 22:13:16 UTC 2005

builds@b2.netbsd.org:/home/builds/ab/netbsd-2-1-RELEASE/mac68k/200510241747Z-obj/home/builds/ab/netbsd-2-1-RELEASE/src/sys/arch/mac68k/compile/GENERIC
Apple Macintosh Quadra 950  (68040)
cpu: delay factor 1067
total memory = 81920 KB
avail memory = 75656 KB
mrg: 'Quadra950 class ROMs' ROM glue, tracing off, debug off, silent traps
mainbus0 (root)
obio0 at mainbus0
esp0 at obio0 (quick): address 0x897000: NCR53C96, 25MHz, SCSI ID 7
scsibus0 at esp0: 8 targets, 8 luns per target
esp1 at obio0 (quick): address 0x897402: NCR53C96, 25MHz, SCSI ID 7
scsibus1 at esp1: 8 targets, 8 luns per target
adb0 at obio0
asc0 at obio0: Apple Sound Chip
intvid0 at obio0 @ f9001000: DAFB video subsystem, monitor sense 1
intvid0: 640 x 480, monochrome
macfb0 at intvid0
wsdisplay0 at macfb0 (kbdmux ignored)
sn0 at obio0: integrated Ethernet adapter
sn0: Ethernet address 08:00:07:d4:65:4e
iwm0 at obio0: Apple GCR floppy disk controller
fd0 at iwm0 drive 0: (HD disk -- not supported)
fd1 at iwm0 drive 1: (HD disk -- not supported)
zsc0 at obio0 chip type 0
zsc0 channel 0: d_speed   9600 DCD clk 0 CTS clk 0
zstty0 at zsc0 channel 0 (console i/o)
zsc0 channel 1: d_speed   9600 DCD clk 0 CTS clk 0
zstty1 at zsc0 channel 1
nubus0 at mainbus0
fpu0 at mainbus0 (mc68040)
adb0 (direct, IOP): 0 targets
aed0 at adb0 addr 0: ADB Event device
scsibus0: waiting 2 seconds for devices to settle...
scsibus1: waiting 2 seconds for devices to settle...
sd0 at scsibus0 target 0 lun 0: <SEAGATE, ST32430N, 0266> disk fixed
sd0: 2047 MB, 3992 cyl, 9 head, 116 sec, 512 bytes/sect x 4193415 sectors
sd0: sync (160.00ns offset 15), 8-bit (6.250MB/s) transfers
cd0 at scsibus0 target 2 lun 0: <MATSHITA, CD-ROM CR-8004, 1.1f> cdrom removable
cd0: sync (480.00ns offset 8), 8-bit (2.083MB/s) transfers
boot device: sd0
root on sd0a dumps on sd0b
root file system type: ffs