> After installing mac68k NetBSD 1.6.2 on a Centris 650 from scratch, I
> was unable to get a login prompt on the console (built-in video and
> keyboard) in multi-user mode.  I saw this after doing a sysinst install,
> as well as using the old installer after building devices.

Mine is working 100% on a Q605 (also from scratch, also sysinst).

> I noticed that during the boot-up procedure that there was complaint that
> /dev/ttyE0 does not exist.  And getty appeared to complain periodically
> about /dev/ttyE0 not existing.  Doing an ls of /dev showed that /dev/ttyE0
> does not indeed exist, though there is a /dev/ttye0 device.
> 
> The fix was to turn "on" the console device (and comment out the ttyE0
> device) in the /etc/ttys file in single-user mode, after doing a
> "mount -u /".  (BTW, this mount command produces complaints that the root
> filesystem is not clean, which I don't understand because the root partition
> had been fsck'ed and was mounted read-only before this point.)

My ttys file has ttyE0 enabled, and I *do* have a /dev/ttyE0:

% ls -l /dev/ttyE0
crw-------  1 root  wheel  46, 0 Jun 13 01:48 /dev/ttyE0

For that matter, I also have a /dev/ttye0, but it's not in /etc/ttys.
It almost sounds like makedev didn't run completely.

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