i am trying to install netbsd 1.1 on a sun4/260 and am having a few
problems.  the box looks very much like:

SUN4/260
8M VME card
32M VME card
SCSI (internal) VME card
        sd0 (ID 0) sunos root/swap/usr
        sd4 (ID 2) netbsd root/swap/usr
                sd4 at si0 slave 8
                sd4: <CDC 94191-766 cyl 1632 alt 2 hd 15 sec 53>
                current partition table (original sd2):
                partition a - starting cyl      0, # blocks    38160 (48/0/0)
                partition b - starting cyl     48, # blocks    76320 (96/0/0)
                partition c - starting cyl      0, # blocks  1297440 (1632/0/0)
                partition d - starting cyl      0, # blocks        0 (0/0/0)
                partition e - starting cyl      0, # blocks        0 (0/0/0)
                partition f - starting cyl      0, # blocks        0 (0/0/0)
                partition g - starting cyl    144, # blocks   203520 (256/0/0)
                partition h - starting cyl    400, # blocks   979440 (1232/0/0)
SCSI (external) VME card
        no devices
No graphics console (VTxxx on port A)

i am using the GENERIC kernel (which maps sd0 to 3 and sd3 to 0). 
additionally i am using the sunos boot blocks (since i used sunos newfs
to create my filesystems)

from the prompt i issue:

	>b sd(0,8,0)netbsd -as

i see (i did get this from /var/log/messages!):

	Copyright (c) 1982, 1986, 1989, 1991, 1993
	The Regents of the University of California.  All rights reserved.

	NetBSD 1.1 (GENERIC_SCSI3) #9: Tue Nov 21 20:15:17 MET 1995
	pk@neon:/usr/src1/sys/arch/sparc/compile/GENERIC_SCSI3
	real mem = 41918464
	avail mem = 38109184
	using 255 buffers containing 2088960 bytes of memory
	bootpath: /vmes0/si0/sd@8,0
	mainbus0 (root)
	cpu0 at mainbus0: SUN-4/200 series (L64802 or ACT8847 FPU)
	cpu0: 131072 byte write-back, 16 bytes/line, sw flush cache enabled
	obio0 at mainbus0
	oclock0 at obio0 addr f3000000
	eeprom0 at obio0 addr f2000000
	memreg0 at obio0 addr f4000000
	zs0 at obio0 addr f1000000 pri 12, softpri 6
	zs0a: console i/o
	zs1 at obio0 addr f0000000 pri 12, softpri 6
	bwtwo0 at obio0 addr fd000000: bwtwo, 1600 x 1280
	ie0 at obio0 addr f6000000 pri 6 address 08:00:20:07:82:54, type onboard
	vmel0 at mainbus0
	vmes0 at mainbus0
	si0 at vmes0 addr ff200000 vec 0x40 pri 2
	scsibus0 at si0
	si0 targ 0 lun 0: <CDC, 94191-15, 0136> SCSI1 0/direct fixed
	sd1 at scsibus0: 633MB, 1632 cyl, 15 head, 52 sec, 512 bytes/sec
	si0 targ 1 lun 0: <CDC, 94191-15, 0136> SCSI1 0/direct fixed
	sd2 at scsibus0: 640MB, 1632 cyl, 15 head, 53 sec, 512 bytes/sec
	root on sd2a

(yes, while both drives are 94191-15's they are actually different block sizes)

after this i dont see anything, a friend (namely ken) noticed that it
still was watching the serial (since we could force "overflows") and
the memory activity lights were blinking randomly.

we configured a getty (from sunos) for port A and rebooted but still nothing
more than the above.  i configured the network interface (from sunos)
and rebooted, but ie0 never came up.

what do i do:

	a) find a bw monitor (no easy task they are all dead)
	b) swap my scsi id's, does (0,8,0) == ID 2 give netbsd
	   a headache? (i get one everytime i see this)
	c) find some chickens and a big knife?

thanks in advance

--chas
chas@ohm.nrl.navy.mil