Just wanted to give you a note that NetBSD/hp700 boots fine into multiuser
on my 712/100. I used a bootpd/tftpd/rpc.bootparamd setup, as described on 
the OpenBSD/hppa page.



NetBSD 1.5Z (GENERIC) #1: Sun Mar  3 11:25:18 EST 2002
    root@the-gates-of-delirium.home:/data/union-hp700/src/sys/arch/hp700/compile/GENERIC
HP9000/712/100 (King Gecko) PA-RISC 1.1
real mem = 32768 KB (512 KB reserved for PROM, 24064 KB used by NetBSD)
avail mem = 22140 KB
using 435 buffers containing 1740 KB of memory
mainbus0 (root) [flex fff80000]
pdc0 at mainbus0
mem0 at mainbus0 hpa fffbf000: viper rev 0, ctrl 40400102<eisa_prf> size 32MB
cpu0 at mainbus0 hpa fffbe000 irq 31: PCXL rev 6, lev 1, cat A, 100 MHz clk
cpu0: shadows, 128K/128K D/I caches, 64 shared TLB, 8 shared BTLB
cpu0: PCX-L (CMOS-26B) floating point, rev 1
lasi0 at mainbus0 hpa f0100000 irq 28: rev 3.0
gsc0 at lasi0
"PS/2 port" at gsc0 (type a, sv 84) hpa f0108100 not configured
"PS/2 port" at gsc0 (type a, sv 84) hpa f0108000 not configured
"floppy controller" at gsc0 (type a, sv 83) hpa f010a000 not configured
"Advanced audio (ext.)" at gsc0 (type a, sv 7b) hpa f0104000 not configured
lpt0 at gsc0 hpa f0102000 irq 7
com0 at gsc0 hpa f0105000 irq 5: ns16550a, working fifo
ie0 at gsc0 hpa f0107000 irq 8: v1.0 address 00:60:b0:80:f5:aa, type LASI/i82596CA
osiop0 at gsc0 hpa f0106000 irq 9: NCR53C710 rev 2, 40MHz, SCSI ID 7
scsibus0 at osiop0: 8 targets, 8 luns per target
"GIO Graphics" at mainbus0 (type a, sv 85) hpa f8000000 not configured
biomask 00000203 netmask 00000303 ttymask 000003a7
scsibus0: waiting 2 seconds for devices to settle...
boot device: ie0
root on ie0
nfs_boot: trying DHCP/BOOTP
nfs_boot: BOOTP next-server: 10.0.0.28
nfs_boot: my_name=moron
nfs_boot: my_addr=10.0.0.24
nfs_boot: my_mask=255.0.0.0
nfs_boot: getfh - no pathname
no file system for ie0
cannot mount root, error = 79
root device (default ie0): ie0: receiver not ready; scbstatus=0x5000
ie0: reset
ie0
dump device: ie0
file system (default generic): 
root on ie0 dumps on ie0p
nfs_boot: trying DHCP/BOOTP
nfs_boot: timeout...
nfs_boot: timeout...
nfs_boot: timeout...
nfs_boot: trying RARP (and RPC/bootparam)
nfs_boot: client_addr=10.0.0.24 (RARP from 10.0.0.28)
nfs_boot: server_addr=10.0.0.28
nfs_boot: hostname=moron
nfs_boot: timeout...
nfs_boot: timeout...
nfs_boot: timeout...
root on hppa:/mnt/data/paul/moron/root
WARNING: clock lost 10198 days -- CHECK AND RESET THE DATE!

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