Subject: Re: Couldn't use NetBSD
To: None <port-i386@NetBSD.ORG>
From: Kent Polk <kent@tiamat.goathill.org>
List: port-i386
Date: 10/12/2000 17:57:14
On 12 Oct 2000 10:20:01 -0500, John Hawkinson wrote:
>
>I see. Your description wasn't quite clear to me. You're saying that
>that installation program seemed to function normally, but after it was
>complete, and rebooted, the system did not function normally.
>
>Yes, the installation runs under NetBSD, it has some slightly different
>device support, mostly because it's difficutl to fit the full device support
>on the installation floppy. Perhaps there is some sort of conflict
>on your machine.

This sounds a bit like the problem I had with wscons on my firewall
box. I had to compile a kernel that used pccons instead of wscons.
Install worked fine because the installer apparently uses pccons,
but on reboot, there was no working console.

NetBSD 1.4.2 (xxxxxxx.142b) #0: Wed Sep 13 22:50:33 CDT 2000