I've never use the 'root=/dev/nfs' before.  Is this a Qube requirement?
On my RAQ2 I use
something like:
'bfd /boot/netbsd.gz nfsroot=/u1/cobalt"

This works fine for me. :-)

-Andrew
----- Original Message -----
From: <thh@marketchannel.tv>
To: <port-cobalt@netbsd.org>
Sent: Friday, December 15, 2000 4:23 PM
Subject: installation: Executing bootloader kernel... then stall


> I'm new to netBSD and need some help getting my Qube2 running.
>
> So far I've copied netbsd-GENERIC.gz  to /boot, set up a box to serve
up
> the Qube's ip address and file system.
>
> Things appear to go well until it executes the bootloader kernel.
>
>         Cobalt: bfd /boot/netbsd-GENERIC.gz root=/dev/nfs
> nfsroot=/data/netBSD
>         Decompressing done
>         Executing bootloader kernel...
>
> I'm not hearing any disk activity, the LCD reads "Starting Up",
there's
> network traffic. 15 minutes later I'm still seeing more of the same.
>
> Any assistance would be appreciated.
>
>
> fdisk:
>
> Disk /dev/hda: 16 heads, 63 sectors, 25228 cylinders
> Units = cylinders of 1008 * 512 bytes
>
>    Device Boot   Begin    Start      End   Blocks   Id  System
> /dev/hda1            1        1      610   307439+  83  Linux native
> /dev/hda2          611      611      871   131544   82  Linux swap
> /dev/hda3          872      872     1278   205128   83  Linux native
> /dev/hda4         1024     1279    25228 12070800   83  Linux native
>
>
> df:
> Filesystem         1024-blocks  Used Available Capacity Mounted on
> /dev/hda1             297634  264441    33193     89%   /
> /dev/hda3             198601    3817   194784      2%   /var
> /dev/hda4            11619755  199049  11420706      2%   /home
>
>