> I had the same problem on my R10000 O2 (the resource shortage message).  I 
> worked arround it by plugging in a 3com 3c905 network card into the 
> (single) spare pci slot.  Then I boot via dhcp/tftp with the onboard 
> ethernet controller (the one not supported by netbsd), and swap the cable 
> to the 3com afterwards.  I can then install from ftp instead of cdrom.  
> That appears to solve the problem. 
>

In effect
this method also worked for me,
but after get the pkgsrc tarball and tried to compile some ports,
the machine get frezed, 

> Ie the problem is with the scsi cdrom and not the scsi disk, or that is 
> what I think.

i think about a soft bug, due that in irix the CD drive do his work well 

> 
> This whole process was a lot of fun, and the old Data General dumb 
> terminal saw a lot of action on Friday :-)  Never thought I'd work on one 
> of these green screens again... 
> 

ive used a cisco db9-db9 cable and minicom from my ibook to do the 
installation,
but your terminal are a lot more cool :) 

> Unfortunately I botched something up during the install process and now it 
> can't boot because /sbin/init is missing.  will retry later. 
> 

after execute sushi it has created a paranoical rc.conf file, and the boot 
process will become really noisy with error messages, im too must retry 
other day 

> Cheers,
> Izak

Notes: i asume that all of the destination people of this emails are 
subscribed to the list, why not post only to list? 

Regards 

> 
> Jose R.Rey wrote:
>> 
>> El 23/11/2003, a las 5:22, Christopher SEKIYA escribió: 
>> 
>>> On Sun, Nov 23, 2003 at 05:17:36AM +0100, Jose R.Rey wrote: 
>>> 
>>>> I installed from netboot to get GENERIC kernel, and use the CD to  
>>>> install
>>>> the sets,
>>>  
>>> 
>>> Why didn't you boot from the CD?
>>  
>> 
>> when i try to boot from the CD burned from the last snapshot iso image,
>> a really ugly kernel message appear :( 
>> 
>> BEGIN 
>> 
>> System Maintenance Menu 
>> 
>> 1) Start System
>> 2) Install System Software
>> 3) Run Diagnostics
>> 4) Recover System
>> 5) Enter Command Monitor 
>> 
>> Option? 5
>> Command Monitor.  Type "exit" to return to the menu.
>>  > boot -f pci(0)scsi(0)cdrom(4)rdisk(0)partition(8)ip3xboot
>> 46624+416 entry: 0x80002000 
>> 
>> NetBSD/sgimips 1.6ZF Bootstrap, Revision 1.2
>> (wileyc@izu, Thu Nov 20 14:15:56 JST 2003) 
>> 
>> devopen: pci(0)scsi(0)cdrom(4)rdisk(0)partition(0) type scsi file ip3x
>> 8265808+294092=0x829f80 
>> 
>> Exception: <vector=Normal>
>> Status register: 0x34010082<CU1,CU0,FR,DE,IPL=8,KX,MODE=KERNEL>
>> Cause register: 0x8008<CE=0,IP8,EXC=RMISS>
>> Exception PC: 0x8000b61c, Exception RA: 0x80002300
>> Read TLB miss exception, bad address: 0x0
>>   Saved user regs in hex (&gpda 0x810617d8, &_regs 0x810619d8):
>>   arg: 81070000 8000d6e8 0 2
>>   tmp: 81070000 a13fa678 a13faa78 0 0 a13fab68 7 810540a0
>>   sve: 81070000 4015fa0c 0 4618fbd8 0 4047cfc7 0 3ebf5e51
>>   t8 81070000 t9 0 at 0 v0 402003f7 v1 0 k1 8000d6e8
>>   gp 81070000 fp 0 sp 0 ra 0 
>> 
>> PANIC: Unexpected exception 
>> 
>> [Press reset or ENTER to restart.] 
>> 
>> EOF 
>> 
>> 
>>> 
>>>> yes, the NIC is not detected, this is the reason that i have not  
>>>> tested
>>>> with NFS export
>>>  
>>> 
>>> The on-board NIC is not yet supported.  You must use a PCI NIC (fxp,  
>>> rtk, and
>>> url via USB are well-tested). 
>>> 
>>> Until I work out this weird ahc problem, you should probably fetch the  
>>> sets
>>> via the PCI network interface. 
>>> 
>>> -- Chris
>>>   GPG key FEB9DE7F (91AF 4534 4529 4BCC 31A5  938E 023E EEFB FEB9 DE7F) 
>>> 
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> 
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