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From: daniel_g@ix.netcom.com (Daniel Robinson)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: NetBSD question
Date: 26 Aug 1994 21:35:07 GMT
Organization: Netcom
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Distribution: world
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I have been trying to get NetBSD to boot on a sparc IPC.  I got the distribution
from gatekeeper.dec.com:/pub/BSD/NetBSD/arch/sparc.  I followed the installation
instructions.  I have an IPC with a 207 disk.  I changed the partition table
to accomodate the larger root of NetBSD.  I am running in 'a' and 'g'.  Sort of
standard.  While booting -s, or any mode for that matter, I get the UNIX stuff
about devices and then nothing.  The last message is:

	Found boot device sd0

I have only one disk on the system.  Among the things I did was run MAKEDEV in
/mnt/dev for sd0.  Are SunOS devices compatible with NetBSD?

I greped for the error message in all the files and couldn't find it.  I don't have
source downloaded.  Can any one give me a hint?

Daniel Robinson