Quoth Rafal Boni:
>In message <Pine.GSO.4.21.0108310641330.4000-100000@rfhpc8320.fh-regensburg.de>
>, you write: 
>
>-> I managed to load a kernel (via sash), and it seems to start up NetBSD,
>-> but then the ARC "window" gets clobbered by a green rectangle, and nothing
>-> is visible any more. I have mouse, keyboard and monitor hooked up to the
>-> system. Is it possible that the sgimips port is serial-console only 
>-> right now?
>
>Very much so.  I had sort-of hoped that the PROM console could print stuff
>out to the screen, but it appears not to be the case, at least not in the
>current state of the world.

I'm not sure how many machines this is the case for, but it does output to a text
box on the screen on my R4K Indigo using the ARCS stuff.  I can even type when it
gets to the 'root device:' prompt.  I haven't got it to multiuser yet.