Hi Michael,

Michael Kukat wrote:
> The first: Hard disk size detection fails

I also had problems with disk geometry. Not such weird values as you
get,
my geometry look preety good, but I got problems later during
installation.
I cannot remember exactly what was wrong, but I could fix the problem by
writing a disklabel using an OpenBSD bootdisk. OpenBSD's disklabel has
an
option to read the disk's geometry and to write a label based on this 
information (type "g d" in disklabel's interactive mode to get the disk
geomery) The values I got from this were a bit different from the values 
NetBSD reported during boot and also different from the ones I found
somewhere
on the net for this disk. Based on this disk label I could partition an
install
using the NetBSD bootdisk. I'm not shure if this will fix your problem
but may-
be it's worth a try.

> The second: using serial console is impossible... Output to the terminal
> works, input just doesn't work. 

Do you mean SRM console or NetBSD console? If SRM doesn't work via
serial
console, then it's likely that your serial port is broken. When it comes 
to NetBSD, there are know problems with serial port on Multias with
NetBSD 
1.5. See "http://mail-index.netbsd.org/port-alpha/2000/12/03/0007.html"
for details & fixes. I didn't try this patches but they look good. Btw.:
Have this problems been fixed in later versions ob NetBSD? My multia
shows
a least two of the problems (X server not working, serial ports not
working)
with NetBSD 1.5.2.

Werner