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From: Alain.Thivillon@alma.fr (Alain Thivillon)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc
Subject: Problem installing NetBsd 1.2.1 on Sparc 4/60
Date: 16 May 1997 19:13:16 GMT
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I have a very old SparcStation 1 (4/60) with 12Mbytes of memory. I try
to netboot NetBSD 1.2.1 from FreeBSD server.

I do a diskless setup of the system (disk is empty).

All just runs fine : rarp, bootparam, remote mount of / filesystem.
Kernel starts, devices are displayed during probe : scsi,lan,disks ...

The last thing displayed is the graphic card identification (cgthree,
graphic color display).

After this, system halts (no message) and return to an infinite loop
with the (boot,continue,new) prompt.

I have setup <root>/etc/fstab,myname and hosts as described in INSTALL
document. All hardware tests pass fine.

What is wrong :) ?