Subject: Re: Running 1.5_ALPHA on a JavaSTation
To: Darren Reed <darrenr@reed.wattle.id.au>
From: Paul Kranenburg <pk@cs.few.eur.nl>
List: port-sparc
Date: 07/04/2000 16:03:14
> I got NetBSD 1.5_ALPHA running on a JavaStation today (the first model
> unit, which looked like the brick). The only catch is you cannot let
> anything exit that is running on /dev/console (so it seems). That is,
> you cannot exit the shell from single user mode or let rc exit else it
> will panic. Oh, this was testing it with the serial port as the console.
Fetch /sys/arch/sparc/dev/kd.c, rev. 1.13, which fixes this.
-pk