Hi all.
  I'm installing NetBSD 1.6Z from the premade floppy images onto a Performa 
6400 with no video. I have set the OpenFirmware over serial console. So, at 
this point Mac HD has Mac OS 9 on it and the floppy disk I'm using is 
standard NetBSD Mac PPC install floppy. When I boot I get this:

Open Firmware, 2.0
To continue booting the MacOS type:
BYE<return>
To continue booting from the default boot device type:
BOOT<return>
ok
0 > printenv

little-endian?      false               false
real-mode?          false               false
auto-boot?          false               true
diag-switch?        false               false
fcode-debug?        false               false
oem-banner?         false               false
oem-logo?           false               false
use-nvramrc?        true                false
real-base           F00000              -1
real-size           100000              100000
virt-base           -1                  -1
virt-size           100000              100000
load-base           600000              4000
pci-probe-list      -1                  -1
screen-#columns     64                  64
screen-#rows        28                  28
selftest-#megs      0                   0
boot-device         /AAPL,ROM           /AAPL,ROM
boot-file
diag-device         fd:diags            fd:diags
diag-file
input-device        kbd                 ttya
output-device       ttya                ttya
oem-banner
oem-logo
nvramrc
boot-command        boot                boot
ok
0 > boot fd:0 -
OF_open bootpath=fd
read stage 2 blocks: 0123456. done!
starting stage 2...

>>NetBSD/macppc OpenFirmware Boot, Revision 1.7
>>(autobuild@mofo, Wed Sep 10 05:13:30 EST 2003)
4049996-
Please remove disk 1, insert disk 2, and press return...
+163764=0x404e64
start=0x800000
Copyright (c) 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2003
    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 1.6Z (INSTALL) #0: Wed Sep 10 05:48:44 EST 2003
        
autobuild@mofo:/build/current/obj.macppc/sys/arch/macppc/compile/INSTALL

total memory = 90112 KB
avail memory = 76748 KB
using 1152 buffers containing 4608 KB of memory
no active packagemainbus0 (root)
cpu0 at mainbus0: 603ev (Revision 2.1), ID 0 (primary)
cpu0: HID0 90c001<DOZE,DPM,ICE,DCE,NOPTI>
cpu0: ohare L2 cache enabled
bandit0 at mainbus0
pci0 at bandit0 bus 0
pci0: i/o space, memory space enabled
pchb0 at pci0 dev 11 function 0
pchb0: vendor 0x106b product 0x0001 (rev. 0x03)
ex0 at pci0 dev 14 function 0: 3Com 3c905B-TX 10/100 Ethernet (rev. 0x0)
ex0: found in power state D3, attempting to recover.
ex0: changed power state to D0.
ex0: interrupting at irq 25
ex0: MAC address 00:10:4b:d2:13:b6
exphy0 at ex0 phy 24: 3Com internal media interface
exphy0: 10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, auto
obio0 at pci0 dev 16 function 0: addr 0xf3000000
mesh0 at obio0 offset 0x10000 irq 12: 50MHz, SCSI ID 7
scsibus0 at mesh0: 8 targets, 8 luns per target
zsc0 at obio0 offset 0x13000: irq 15,16
zstty0 at zsc0 channel 0ú

then no more.

I have tried "use-nvramrc? false", I have tried taking out the 3com Card and 
resetting the motherboard and I've spent hours in front of google looking 
for an answer to this problem. Every time it gets to zstty0 at zsc0 channel 
0 I get a strange character afterwards (not always a ú) I have tried with 
1.5.whateveritwas aswell and it reset the Mac after zstty0 at zsc0 channel 
0.

I figured NetBSD was switching terminals away from ttya and I read somewhere 
that typing "s" at the first prompt in the installer would dump me into a 
shell. I hope someone can confirm this and tell me a command to type (blind) 
at the shell to get my console back.

That said I also tried typing "s" (then return) followed by shutdown -r now 
and nothing happened. I expected a reboot.

I'm totally lost and fairly frustrated, any help will be very much 
appreciated.

Andy (Bundi)

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