In message <86256816.0063328E.00@smtp_mts.mts.mb.ca>Cory.Bajus@mts.mb.ca writes
>Hi all.  I am new to the NetBSD world, and have been trying to resurrect an un
>used DS5000/125 by getting NetBSD working on it.  I have run into the followin
>g problems:
>
>1) On startup, when running through its self-tests, it prints out the followin
>g message:
>
>?TFL: 0/ptrn (3, exp=90, act=98) PMAG-BA

This means you don't have the monitor connected. Clever, huh?


>I am guessing that the framebuffer has failed a test of some sort (I am curren
>tly using a serial console).  Has anyone else seen this message?
>
>2) The machine came with no OS or drives, so I am attempting to netboot it usi
>ng a linux system (Debian 2.1).  Using the nfsnetbsd boot image, the machine b
>oots but fails to mount its root partition.  The error message is as follows:
>
>boot device: <unknown>
>nfs_boot: trying DHCP/BOOTP
>nfs_boot: DHCP server: 0x8ea0a521
>nfs_boot: my_name=tstsap2.mts.mb.ca
>nfs_boot: my_addr=0x8ea0a53d
>nfs_boot: my_mask=0xffffff00
>nfs_boot: portmap NFS, error=5
>cannot mount root, error=5
>root device (default le0):
>
>Are there any ideas as to why this is not working?  I am pretty sure that the 
>disk image is being exported properly (syslog shows a successful NFS mount).

Are you sure you set up the root directory in tftp, and that
the NFS-root has a ./dev/console entry?