On Tue, Feb 10, 2004 at 02:36:03PM -0800, Jesse Peterson wrote:
> Sam,
> 
> As you've probably noticed it's been a while since I've
> installed NetBSD on PReP hardware =).  But I'll try and
> field these as best I can:

I much appreciate any and all assistance!  Especially from
someone that has had success:)
 
Ok, again I am looking at your "7248 Install success!"
email.  In the first step you refer to the "(S)hell"
prompt.  This I am not seeing.  When I boot off the
sysinst.fs image, I get a prompt "Boot: ".  I have tried
typing "boot -s" to get to single user mode, it doesn't
work:(  

Ultimately it goes through the bootup sequence and runs
into a kernel panic because there is no init.  Is my
impression correct that this panic is the known problem
with the install?

A bit of info about my 7248.  I have removed the 2.25GB
SCSI drive that came with the machine and installed a 20GB
IDE drive that currently has a 100Meg DOS partition and a
NTFS partition.  Is there something special I need to do
to create the  boot partition?  I cannot recall the
machine other then it was an IBM (I am thinking a 286
micro channel box) that had a small "hidden" partition for
IBM system stuff, basically firmware management software.
Is this also the case with this 7248?

Sam