In article <40FAF686.1070208@adenzel.demon.nl>
alx-hp300@adenzel.demon.nl wrote:

> When I boot the machine in local mode[2], the system grabs the 
> bootstraploader SYS_UBOOT, and loads the kernel. That takes some time, 
> but gets loaded eventually. Then it shows a line telling me the 
> entry-point of the kernel, and that's it.
 :
> Does anyone know something about this issue?

Yes. There is a bug around framebuffer console attachments
on 1.5 and 1.6.2, and it has been fixed -current, 2.0-branch
and 1.6-branch.
http://mail-index.netbsd.org/port-hp300/2004/04/10/0000.html

Try recent release or -current source tree, or
binaries on releng.NetBSD.org:
ftp://releng.NetBSD.org/pub/NetBSD-daily/netbsd-1-6/200407120000/hp300
ftp://releng.NetBSD.org/pub/NetBSD-daily/netbsd-2-0/200407150000/hp300
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Izumi Tsutsui
tsutsui@ceres.dti.ne.jp