* Reinoud Zandijk <reinoud@netbsd.org> [021214 17:40]:
> in order to get some new info on my HP 9000 machine i tried the boot.lif 
> file from OpenBSD's hppa port. I got that far that it loads the boot.lif 
> file and the keyboard responds very snappy... The NetBSD bootloader is very 
> reluctant to get keys from the HID so to say... maybe this might ring some 
> bells ?
> 
> OpenBSD 3.2-beta ...
> HP9000/720 (Cobra) PA-RISC 1.1a

There is a newer boot.lif in ftp.openbsd.org/pub/OpenBSD/snapshots/hppa
than what is available on the website.  Give that a try and see what
happens.

David