heres the output of the kernel on the Qube 2, once again I cant get the
actual filesystem to boot, but I'll figure it out :)

Qube 2

Cobalt Microserver Diagnostics - 'We serve it, you surf it'
Built Wed Mar  3 21:26:25 PST 1999                         

 1.LCD Test................................PASS
 2.Controller Test.........................PASS
 5.Bank 0:.................................16M
 6.Bank 1:.................................0M
 7.Bank 2:.................................0M
 8.Bank 3:.................................0M
 9.Serial Test.............................PASS
10.PCI Expansion Slot....................**EMPTY**
12.IDE Test................................PASS
13.Ethernet Test...........................PASS
16.RTC Test................................PASS

Cobalt: bfd /boot/netbsd.gz nfsroot=/nfsroot
Decompressing  done
Decompressing / done.
Copyright (c) 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000
    The NetBSD Foundation, Inc.  All rights reserved.
Copyright (c) 1982, 1986, 1989, 1991, 1993           
    The Regents of the University of California.  All rights reserved.
                                                                      
NetBSD 1.4X (RAQ) #3: Fri Apr  7 23:16:02 CEST 2000
    soren@meow:/usr/home/soren/netbsd/src/sys/arch/cobalt/compile/RAQ
16384 KB memory, 11152 KB free, 3200 KB in 800 buffers               
mainbus0 (root)                                       
com0 at mainbus0 addr 0x1c800000 level 3: st16650a, working fifo
com0: console                                                   
cpu0 at mainbus0: QED RM5200 CPU Rev. 10.0 with built-in FPU Rev. 10.0
cpu0: L1 cache: 32KB/32B Instruction, 32KB/32B Data, two way set
associative
cpu0: No L2 cache                                                           
gt0 at mainbus0 addr 0x14000000 level 0
pci0 at gt0                            
pci0: i/o space, memory space enabled, rd/line, rd/mult, wr/inv ok
pchb0 at pci0 dev 0 function 0                                    
pchb0: Galileo Technology GT-64111 System Controller, rev 17
tlp0 at pci0 dev 7 function 0: DECchip 21143 Ethernet, pass 4.1
tlp0: interrupting at level 1                                  
tlp0: Ethernet address 00:10:e0:00:9c:88
lxtphy0 at tlp0 phy 1: LXT970 10/100 media interface, rev. 3
lxtphy0: 10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, auto
pcib0 at pci0 dev 9 function 0                               
pcib0: VIA Technologies VT82C586 (Apollo VP) PCI-ISA Bridge, rev 39
pciide0 at pci0 dev 9 function 1: VIA Technologies VT82C586A IDE
Controller
pciide0: bus-master DMA support present                                    
pciide0: primary channel configured to compatibility mode
wd0 at pciide0 channel 0 drive 0: <QUANTUM FIREBALL CR4.3A>
wd0: drive supports 16-sector pio transfers, lba addressing
wd0: 4110 MB, 14848 cyl, 9 head, 63 sec, 512 bytes/sect x 8418816 sectors
wd0: 32-bit data port                                                    
wd0: drive supports PIO mode 4, DMA mode 2, Ultra-DMA mode 4
pciide0: primary channel interrupting at irq 14             
wd0(pciide0:0:0): using PIO mode 4, Ultra-DMA mode 2 (using DMA data
transfers)
pciide0: secondary channel configured to compatibility mode                    
pciide0: disabling secondary channel (no drives)           
VIA Technologies VT83C572 USB Controller (USB serial bus, revision
0x02) at pci0 dev 9 function 2 not configured
tlp1 at pci0 dev 12 function 0: DECchip 21143 Ethernet, pass 4.1                                                
tlp1: interrupting at level 2                                   
tlp1: Ethernet address 00:10:e0:00:99:b7
lxtphy1 at tlp1 phy 1: LXT970 10/100 media interface, rev. 3
lxtphy1: 10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, auto
boot device: tlp0                                            
root on tlp0     
nfs_boot: trying DHCP/BOOTP
nfs_boot: DHCP server: 10.9.8.9
nfs_boot: my_addr=10.9.8.203   
nfs_boot: my_mask=255.255.255.0
nfs_boot: getfh - no pathname  
no file system for tlp0      
cannot mount root, error = 79
root device (default tlp0):  
dump device:                
file system (default generic): nfs
root on tlp0                      
nfs_boot: trying DHCP/BOOTP
nfs_boot: DHCP server: 10.9.8.9
nfs_boot: my_addr=10.9.8.203   
nfs_boot: my_mask=255.255.255.0
nfs_boot: getfh - no pathname  
cannot mount root, error = 5 
root device (default tlp0): 

the Qube 1 I tried however was not soo successfull, it started
decompressing, then it printed out some garbage and sat there, it may be
beta hardware I'm dealing with, I will try and find a confirmed production
unit and try that.

-stephen