I've tried to install the generic 1.5.1Alpha kernel that Hauke Fath 
set up: 
ftp://ftp.causeuse.org/pub/macbsd/netbsd.GENERICSBC.010314.gz. I have 
a Quadra660av with 72 megs of memory and a 500 meg external disk 
formated with HD SC Setup 7.3.5 (patched) into a minimum hfs 
partition, a swap partition, and a root&usr partition. I have a 
Logitech 3 button mouse, but I've tried it without the mouse 
connected also. I got 1.5 running on this machine (with sysinstall). 
I gunziped the above gz file and copied it to /netbsd. I must be 
missing a critical step somewhere. When I reboot here's what I get 
(sorry I have to type this out since I haven't got a serial console 
to work on this machine):

...
NetBSD 1.5.1_ALPHA (GENERICSBC) #1: Thu Mar 15 11:41:39 CET 2001
	hauke@q700.causeuse.org:/usr/src/sys/arch/mac68k/compile/GENERICSBC
Apple Macintosh Centris 660AV (68040)
...
boot device: sd1
root on sd1a dumps on sd1b
PRAM: 0x3ac4459d, macos_boottime:0x3ac44592.
root file system type: ffs
exec /sbin/init: error 8
init: not found
panic: no init
Stopped in init at	_cpu_Debugger+0x6:	unlk a6
db> trace
_cpu_Debugger(ffffcfe8,ffffcff1,0,16373c,87afa8) + 6
_panic(2d967,2d956,2e9c4,0,0) + 60
_start_init(87b000) + 1ce
_proc_trampoline() + 2
>db

I got a similar panic with the earlier kernel specifically for 
quadras: http://www.tangro.de/~hf/macbsd/netbsd-kern-151-alpha.tar.gz.

I've tried installing (from scratch) many of the snapshots that Steve 
has been posting, but they all fail with messages like this:

NetBSD 1.5Q (Generic) #22: Sun Jan 14 15:53:02 PST 2001
	root2@c610:/usr/cvs/src/sys/arch/mac68k/compile/GENERIC
Apple Macintosh Centris 660AV (68040)
...
boot device: sd0
root on sd0a dumps on sd0b
PRAM: 0x3a6dd113, macos_boottime: 0x3a6dd108.
root file system type: ffs
rcorder: could not open /etc/rc/d/*: No such file of directory
Tue Jan 23 18:44:38 PST 2001
Jan 23 18:44:39 init: getty repeating too quickly on prot /dev/ttyE0, sleeping
Jan 23 18:44:39 init: getty repeating too quickly on prot /dev/ttyE0, sleeping
Jan 23 18:44:39 init: getty repeating too quickly on prot /dev/ttyE0, sleeping
Jan 23 18:44:39 init: getty repeating too quickly on prot /dev/ttyE0, sleeping
...

Suggestions would be gratefully appreciated.
Tom

Tom Jernigan,  jernigantc@ornl.gov
presently at General Atomics in San Diego, Bldg 13/551
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