This is a known problem - see
	http://www.netbsd.org/Ports/sparc/faq.html#sparc2-serial-console


		David/absolute

On Fri, 7 Jan 2000, Frederic Cirera wrote:

> 
> Hi.
> 
> I got the following error when boot NetBSD-1.4.1 on sparc 2, with no
> screen and keyboard, (just a dumb terminal pluged on the ttya port).
> 
> I also try seting output-device and input-device to ttya woth no
> success.
> 
> Doese someone have any idea to fix this problem ?
> 
> ok boot disk3
> Boot device: /sbus/esp@0,800000/sd@0,0   File and args: 
> >> NetBSD/sparc Secondary Boot, Revision 1.8
> >> (pk@flambard, Sat May  8 21:54:06 MEST 1999)
> Booting netbsd @ 0x4000
> 1064960+72216+188228+[62028+69522]=0x167b42
> OBP version 2, revision 2.2 (plugin rev 2)
> Warning: unparseable stdin-path property
> Warning: unparseable stdout-path property
> cninit: invalid inSource=0xffffffff
> Type  'go' to resume
> ok 
> 
> 
> Best regards
> 
> {\sc Fred.}
> 
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