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>> After installing mac68k NetBSD 1.6.2 on a Centris 650 from scratch, I
>> was unable to get a login prompt on the console (built-in video and
>> keyboard) in multi-user mode.  I saw this after doing a sysinst install,
>> as well as using the old installer after building devices.

>Mine is working 100% on a Q605 (also from scratch, also sysinst).

Interesting!

>> I noticed that during the boot-up procedure that there was complaint that
>> /dev/ttyE0 does not exist.  And getty appeared to complain periodically
>> about /dev/ttyE0 not existing.  Doing an ls of /dev showed that /dev/ttyE0
>> does not indeed exist, though there is a /dev/ttye0 device.
>> 
>> The fix was to turn "on" the console device (and comment out the ttyE0
>> device) in the /etc/ttys file in single-user mode, after doing a
>> "mount -u /".  (BTW, this mount command produces complaints that the root
>> filesystem is not clean, which I don't understand because the root partition
>> had been fsck'ed and was mounted read-only before this point.)

>My ttys file has ttyE0 enabled, and I *do* have a /dev/ttyE0:

>% ls -l /dev/ttyE0
>crw-------  1 root  wheel  46, 0 Jun 13 01:48 /dev/ttyE0

>For that matter, I also have a /dev/ttye0, but it's not in /etc/ttys.
>It almost sounds like makedev didn't run completely.

This happened after several attempts.  I didn't run a "makedev" script
explicitly, relying instead on the installer to run all the steps.  No
errors were reported in any of my installations.

I'll look for "makedev" to see what it does.

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