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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msuinfo!agate!fsa.ca!deraadt From: deraadt@fsa.ca (Theo de Raadt) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: NetBSD question Date: 26 Aug 1994 22:55:24 GMT Organization: little lizard city Lines: 18 Distribution: world Message-ID: <DERAADT.94Aug26165525@newt.fsa.ca> References: <33ln6b$819@ixnews1.ix.netcom.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: newt.fsa.ca In-reply-to: daniel_g@ix.netcom.com's message of 26 Aug 1994 21:35:07 GMT In article <33ln6b$819@ixnews1.ix.netcom.com> daniel_g@ix.netcom.com (Daniel Robinson) writes: I have been trying to get NetBSD to boot on a sparc IPC. [...] 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 This is because your /dev directory is empty. The install script and docs are not very good yet. I updated some of them last night, though. For the moment, do this: Boot under SunOS mount the NetBSD root partition on /mnt cd /mnt/dev ./MAKEDEV all -- This space not left unintentionally unblank. deraadt@fsa.ca