> > I am still having the ``warning: no /dev/console'' on NetBSD-1.4.2
> > if I use the tapeboot of NetBSD (no problem using a SunOS boot tape
> > to load the miniroot).  I have to assume it is something to do with
> > the NetBSD-1.4.2 (and the 1.4P snapshot) ramdisk kernels.
> 
> I don't know about fixes, but I do know that the problem is simply that
> there's no "/dev/console" on your miniroot.  If you're dd'ing the
> miniroot to a swap partition from another OS instance already on the
> root disk then you might be able to (in single user mode) mount that
> miniroot and run "cd /dev; sh MAKEDEV" to get the minimal device nodes
> to appear, then boot off the ``repaired'' miniroot partition.

It is not the miniroot.  The miniroot, once loaded by a sunos tape boot,
does fine.  It is in the ramdisk kernel and whatever script is generating
that kernel, where the problem seems to lie.

> I think there were similar problems on NetBSD/sparc IIRC, and perhaps
> they were only fixed there and not in a generic way so that sun3
> miniroots would also be fixed.

I'll check around some and see if I can find out anything.

Thanks

Bob