Subject: Re: NetBSD 1.2 on an IPC
To: Gavin Cameron <gavin@ormond.unimelb.edu.au>
From: matthew green <mrg@eterna.com.au>
List: port-sparc
Date: 01/07/1997 10:33:48 
what are screen-#rows and screen-#columns set to ?  netbsd/sparc
now initialises these values for the console.  you probably have
them set incorrectly for your console.

try this:

# eeprom -v 'screen-#rows=24'

and then reboot.