Hi all,

I have tried to follow this groups advice on setting up the partitions
with a 4.2BSD partition on wd0a as / and wd0e as /altroot (ext2).

However when I reboot the qube and watch the BIOS via a serial cable I
get the following..

Cobalt Microserver Diagnostics - 'We serve it, you surf it'
Built Tue Dec 15 04:11:42 PST 1998

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

Once the "Decompressing" is done the qube appears to reboot.

I have tried both the normal and non-scsi kernels from the list.

Is there something I have overlooked that you guys can see?

Thanks

Further details:

I have partitioned my hard disk with 
bash-2.05# disklabel wd0
# /dev/rwd0d:
type: ESDI
disk: QUANTUM FIREBALL
label: fictitious
flags:
bytes/sector: 512
sectors/track: 63
tracks/cylinder: 16
sectors/cylinder: 1008
cylinders: 16383
total sectors: 78177792
rpm: 3600
interleave: 1
trackskew: 0
cylinderskew: 0
headswitch: 0           # microseconds
track-to-track seek: 0  # microseconds
drivedata: 0 

8 partitions:
#        size   offset     fstype   [fsize bsize cpg/sgs]
  a: 39845888   394128     4.2BSD     1024  8192    16   # (Cyl.  391 -
39920*)
  c: 39845888   394128     unused        0     0         # (Cyl.  391 -
39920*)
  d: 78177792        0     unused        0     0         # (Cyl.    0 -
77557*)
  e:   131039        1 Linux Ext2        0     0         # (Cyl.    0*-
129)
  f:   264088   131040       swap                        # (Cyl.  130 -
391*)

bash-2.05# fdisk wd0
NetBSD disklabel disk geometry:
cylinders: 16383 heads: 16 sectors/track: 63 (1008 sectors/cylinder)

BIOS disk geometry:
cylinders: 1024 heads: 255 sectors/track: 63 (16065 sectors/cylinder)

Partition table:
0: sysid 131 (Linux native)
    start 1, size 131039 (63 MB), flag 0x0
        beg: cylinder    0, head   0, sector  2
        end: cylinder    8, head  39, sector 63
1: sysid 130 (Linux swap or Prime or Solaris)
    start 131040, size 263088 (128 MB), flag 0x0
        beg: cylinder    8, head  40, sector  1
        end: cylinder   24, head 135, sector 63
2: sysid 169 (NetBSD)
    start 394128, size 78177792 (38172 MB), flag 0x0
        beg: cylinder   24, head 136, sector  1
        end: cylinder 1023, head 254, sector 63
3: <UNUSED>

And the /etc/fstab is

bash-2.05# more /etc/fstab
/dev/wd0a       /       ffs     rw,softdep      0 1
/dev/wd0f       none    swap    sw              0 0
/dev/wd0e       /altroot ext2fs rw              0 2
none            /kern   kernfs  rw              0 0
none            /proc   procfs  rw              0 0

And put the cobalt kernel in the relevant spots...

/altroot/boot/vmunix.gz
/netbsd

Oh.. As I used another NetBSD system (i386) to mount the drive and
create the partitions I ensured the ext2 partition was created with the
correct flags (-O 0 -o something).