Hi,
   I got NetBSD 1.5_ALPHA running on a JavaStation today (the first model
unit, which looked like the brick).  The only catch is you cannot let
anything exit that is running on /dev/console (so it seems).  That is,
you cannot exit the shell from single user mode or let rc exit else it
will panic.  Oh, this was testing it with the serial port as the console.

   My *guess* is that this is because the serial port is driven from the
"su" chip and we don't yet have a driver for this.  The keyboard and mouse
are on zs but there is only one of those.  dmesg is as follows:

NetBSD 1.5_ALPHA (GENERIC) #4: Thu Jun 22 06:45:18 PDT 2000
    matt@sparky.local:/other/kobj/sparc/GENERIC
total memory = 32452 KB
avail memory = 26956 KB
using 431 buffers containing 1724 KB of memory
bootpath: /iommu@0,10000000/sbus@0,10001000/ledma@4,8400010/le@4,8c00000
mainbus0 (root): SUNW,JavaStation-1
cpu0 at mainbus0: MB86904 @ 100 MHz, on-chip FPU
cpu0: 16K instruction (32 b/l), 8K data (16 b/l): cache enabled
obio0 at mainbus0
clock0 at obio0 slot 0 offset 0x200000: mk48t08 (eeprom)
timer0 at obio0 slot 0 offset 0xd00000 delay constant 47
zs0 at obio0 slot 0 offset 0x100000 level 12 softpri 6
zstty0 at zs0 channel 0
zstty1 at zs0 channel 1
zs1 at obio0 slot 0 offset 0x0 level 12 softpri 6
kbd0 at zs1 channel 0
ms0 at zs1 channel 1
slavioconfig at obio0 slot 0 offset 0x800000 not configured
auxreg0 at obio0 slot 0 offset 0x900000
su at obio0 slot 0 offset 0x3002f8 not configured
iommu0 at mainbus0 addr 0x10000000: version 0x4/0x0, page-size 4096, range 64MB
sbus0 at iommu0: clock = 20 MHz
tcx0 at sbus0 slot 2 offset 0x800000 level 5 (ipl 9): SUNW,tcx, 1024 x 768, id 0, rev 2, sense 0
tcx0: attached to /dev/fb
audiocs0 at sbus0 slot 3 offset 0xc000000 level 9: CS4231A
audio0 at audiocs0: full duplex
ledma0 at sbus0 slot 4 offset 0x8400010: rev 2
le0 at ledma0 slot 4 offset 0x8c00000 level 6: address 08:00:20:87:ea:f5
le0: 8 receive buffers, 2 transmit buffers
root on le0
nfs_boot: trying RARP (and RPC/bootparam)
nfs_boot: client_addr=203.18.86.117 (RARP from 203.18.86.77)
nfs_boot: server_addr=203.18.86.78
nfs_boot: hostname=unused117.mel.optimation.com.au
nfs_boot: timeout...
nfs_boot: timeout...
nfs_boot: timeout...
root on werribee.mel.optimation.com.au:/usr/netbsd/root
root file system type: nfs

I don't understand why there were "nfs_boot: timeout..." messages, I was
using boot.net with my laptop running 1.4Y as the boot server.

Also, I notice that "boot.net" will generate RPC packets with a destination
port of '0' if it can't resolve nfs with the portmapper.  Can we generate an
error message instead ?

Darren