install/52845: no console device on 486 DX4-S 100 Mhz

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>Number:         52845
>Category:       install
>Synopsis:       no console device on 486 DX4-S 100 Mhz
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       serious
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    install-manager
>State:          open
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   net
>Arrival-Date:   Thu Dec 21 07:15:00 +0000 2017
>Originator:     Dimitrios
>Release:        7.1 i386
>Organization:
>Environment:
cannot install so cannot run uname
486 DX4 100 Mhz, 64MB RAM, ISA/Vesa Local Bus system, Vesa Local Bus Controller + Graphics card, Sond Blaster 16 ISA - IDE controller for CDROM (tertiary master), 3 Fixed disk devices (IDE to SD - 8GB primary master, 2 GB solid state primary slave, 2 GB solid state secondary master), 2 floppy 1.44 (A being USB-floppy emulator)
>Description:
Booting the system using https://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/NetBSD-7.1/i386/installation/floppy/ bootX.fs , trying both options 1 and, results in
warning: no /dev/console
panic: cnopen: no console device
fatal breakpoint trap in supervisor mode
trap type 1 code 0 eip c0276ce4 cs 8 eflags 246 cr2 bba0b000 ilevel 0 esp c59f4cec
curlwp 0xc1606800 pid 2 lid 1 lowest kstack 0xc59f32c0
Stopped in pid 2.1 (sh) at c0276ce4: popl %ebp
db{0}>

See video at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ck43kqSDOq0
>How-To-Repeat:
Try to install NetBSD 7.1 on the system. Does not matter if SMP/ACPI are selected
>Fix:
None