Hey there:

With all of the great progress that we are
making with the hp300 port, I finally decided
to try installing latest version of NetBSD
that I could get my hands on.  After installing
NetBSD 1.5.2, I wanted to try one of the snapshots,
but I have had no experience with installing
snapshots, so I don't know if it's my inexperience
in this area that's causing my problems, or 
incompatibility with my system configuration.
The main problem that I ran into was trying to
get the miniroot's netbsd to run (the one
located in 20020415-current).  I was able
to netboot, using Sparc running NetBSD as
the rbootd server and the SYS_UBOOT located
in the 20020415-current directory.  However,
when I tried to access the netbsd kernel
located on sd1b (the swap partition to which
I had dumped the gunzipped miniroot.fs using
dd), I got the following output:

>> NetBSD/hp300 Primary Boot, Revision 1.13
>> (gregm@mcgarry, Mon Apr 15 08:46:32 NZST 2002)
>> HP 9000/425t SPU
>> Enter "reset" to reset system.
Boot: [[[le0a:]netbsd][-a][-c][-d][-s][-v][-q]] :- sd3b:netbsd
692350+24936+164544 [75424+51665]=0xf86e0
Start @ 0xfe803400 [1=0xfe8db4a8-0xf86e0]...
Entry point: 0xfe803400

I don't know what to do with this.  I'm going to
try the 20020312-1.5.3_RC1 snapshot next.

The following is the output from dmesg.  Maybe
it'll tell you better than I ever could what
my system is:

WARNING: boot loader did not provide bootinfo
[ preserving 256632 bytes of netbsd a.out symbol table ]
Copyright (c) 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001
    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 1.5.2 (GENERIC) #23: Sun Aug 19 15:13:02 MEST 2001
    he@isabel.urc.uninett.no:/usr/src/sys/arch/hp300/compile/GENERIC
HP 9000/425t (25MHz MC68040 CPU+MMU+FPU, 4k on-chip physical I/D caches)
cpu: delay divisor 30, mmuid 5
total memory = 24564 KB
avail memory = 19664 KB
using 332 buffers containing 1328 KB of memory
Parity detection enabled
hil1: US ASCII keyboard
mainbus0 (root)
intio0 at mainbus0
frodo0 at intio0 addr 0x41c000
dnkbd at frodo0 offset 0x0 not configured
apci0 at frodo0 offset 0x40: no fifo
apci1 at frodo0 offset 0x60: no fifo
dio0 at mainbus0: 98620C, 2 channels, 32 bit DMA
dca0 at dio0 scode 9 ipl 5: working fifo
internal parallel at dio0 scode 12 not configured
oscsi0 at dio0 scode 14 ipl 4: 32 bit dma, async, scsi id 7
sd0 at oscsi0 targ 0 lun 0: <RODIME, RO3000T, 5.76>
sd0: 1216 cylinders, 9 heads, 410211 blocks, 512 bytes/block
sd1 at oscsi0 targ 3 lun 0: <HP, C2235, 0B11> (SCSI-2)
sd1: 1574 cylinders, 9 heads, 825012 blocks, 512 bytes/block
le0 at dio0 scode 21 ipl 5: address 08:00:09:15:ae:95
le0: 8 receive buffers, 2 transmit buffers
topcat0 at dio0 scode 133: 1280 x 1024 256 color hi-res catseye display
grf0 at topcat0
ite0 at grf0: console
interrupt levels: bio = 4, net = 5, tty = 5
boot device: sd1
root on sd1a dumps on sd1b
WARNING: bad date in battery clock
root file system type: ffs


Thanks!
-Sageev George