Whn I initially netbooted over the kdb/screen, the kernel
died with a pcierr.

So I switched to the com port for the console, and now I get

                    System: IP32
                 Processor: 200 Mhz R5000, with FPU
      Primary I-cache size: 32 Kbytes
      Primary D-cache size: 32 Kbytes
      Secondary cache size: 1024 Kbytes
               Memory size: 128 Mbytes
                  Graphics: CRM, Rev C

NetBSD 1.5A (INDY) #142: Tue Jun 27 17:40:37 CEST 2000
     soren@meow:/usr/home/soren/netbsd/src/sys/arch/sgimips/compile/INDY
128 MB memory, 78780 KB free, 6848 KB for ARCS, 39240 KB in 9810 buffers
mainbus0 (root): SGI-IP32 [SGI, 6]
cpu0 at mainbus0: MIPS R5000 CPU (0x2321) Rev. 2.1 with built-in FPU Rev. 1.0
cpu0: L1 cache: 32KB/32B instruction, 32KB/32B data, two way set associative
cpu0: L2 cache: 512KB/32B mixed, snooping

and then about 10 seconds pass and I get thrown the diagnostic menu.

Do you have a latter kernel?
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