Fri, Oct 19, 2001 at 08:42:10AM -0700, guy smiley:
> I downloaded NetBsd-1.5Y and the ofwboot from
> arch/sparc64 directory on ftp.netbsd.org and I booted
> up!!!  While sysinst is complaining about starting up
> curses and the keyboard is a little wacky, I am well
> on my way - Thank you Eduardo and John for you help

i assume the keyboard being wacky is the missing and mysterious
repeating of characters.  if i recall correctly, my similar
problem with a ttya console cleared up when i discovered and
disabled the duplicate getty on ttya.

console "/usr/libexec/getty suncons"    sun     on secure
ttya    "/usr/libexec/getty std.9600"   unknown off secure

i would have thought that one of these would simply lose and
as such the duplication wouldnt matter.  fft.

if you have a monitor and keyboard console, this likely isnt
the cause.