I also downloaded ISO image for 1.6 stable. I was able
to boot from CD and install on SparcUltra5 without any
issues. 

Mine

--- Rick Kelly <rmk@toad.rmkhome.com> wrote:
> Martin Husemann said:
> 
> >As far as I know it works just fine in -current,
> just go to src/etc and
> >run "make iso-image". Since I never tested with the
> final version that ended
> >up in the tree, I'll test that right now (and fix,
> if it needs to be fixed).
> 
> >But it did not work for the 1.6 release, and I'm
> not sure about the pullup
> >status of this, i.e. if it will work in 1.6.1 or
> not.
> 
> There was already a fix. The ISO image:
> 
>
ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/iso/1.6/sparc64cd.iso
> 
> Fixed on October 19. I booted and installed on an
> Ultra 5 with this image
> and also booted it on a Ultra 1 without any
> problems.
> -- 
> Rick Kelly  rmk@rmkhome.com  www.rmkhome.com


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