I finally got my sparc to boot yesterday.  I would like to publicly thank 
all these people for helping me out (during the many reformats and 
shuffling of stuff, the dev directory had gotten lost):

Chuck Cranor <chuck@dworkin.wustl.edu>
Jason Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>
Greg Earle <earle@isolar.Tujunga.CA.US>
"Ron G. Minnich" <rminnich@sarnoff.com>
Peter Svensson <petersv@df.lth.se>
Taras Ivanenko <ivanenko@ctpa03.mit.edu>
greywolf@defender.VAS.viewlogic.com
tuc@melb.convergent.com.au
David Brownlee <david@mono.org>
der Mouse <mouse@Collatz.McRCIM.McGill.EDU>

To: port-sparc@NetBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: Booting sun4c via nfs

> nfs_boot finishes and I get the following:

> root on boot9:/usr/sparc
> WARNING: clock lost 9631 days -- CHECK AND RESET THE DATE!
> swap on boot9:/usr/sparc/swapfile

> At this point the sparc hangs.  L1-A will get me back to the boot ROM
> 'ok' prompt.

This looks a lot like the "missing /dev/console" problem.  Try
installing the patch in PR 2236 and see if the kernel complains about a
missing /dev/console.  If so, make sure boot9:/usr/sparc/dev/ is
populated...if not, check it anyway; /dev/console may exist but not be
character special device (0,0).

					der Mouse

			    mouse@collatz.mcrcim.mcgill.edu