On Sunday, June 3, 2001, at 12:14  am, Lars Kellogg-Stedman wrote:

> Okay, the answer to my problem (which was dropping to the kernel 
> debugger
> w/o keyboard support while the kernel was loading) was "disable the
> 'serial boot echo' checkbox in the Mac68k booter application".
>
> So now my powerbook boots NetBSD.  It's slow, but it's nifty.
>
> I ran into some bugs:
>
> NetBSD-1.5 is configured to run getty on /dev/ttyE0 which is a wscons
> device.  When the system boots, /dev/ttyE* doesn't exist (the installer
> makedev step doesn't create it), so you don't get a console if you boot
> multi-user.

Either use version 1.1h or later of the installer or:

	mount -rw /
	/dev/MAKEDEV all

whilst in single user mode.

This will build all the necessary devices for you.

All the best.

Matthew