i tried installing Netbsd from the CD referenced on this posting
<http://mail-index.netbsd.org/port-cobalt/2003/07/16/0006.html>
on a Qube2 with a 30gb maxtor drive and again with a 200gb western 
digital with the same results. here what comes over the serial port 
after the qube has rebooted.

Cobalt Microserver Diagnostics - 'We serve it, you surf it'
Built Tue May 25 15:58:41 PDT 1999

  1.LCD Test................................PASS
  2.Controller Test.........................PASS
  5.Bank 0:.................................64M
  6.Bank 1:.................................0M
  7.Bank 2:.................................16M
  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
BOOTLOADER ramcode: selected partition /dev/hda1
Decompressing done
Executing bootloader kernel...
Jump_to_Real_Kernel: disk error, trying BFD again
BOOTLOADER ramcode: selected partition /dev/hdc1
Decompressing - done
Executing bootloader kernel...
Jump_to_Real_Kernel: disk error, trying BFD again
get_root_dev: nr_boot_failures 0x00000002 exceeds maxtries 0x00000002 
for boot_i
ndex 0x00000000


  *** halting ***

i've successfully installed from this CD to a Raq2 (actually a Seagate 
NasRaq).

Any suggestions would be appreciated...

john