Re: NetBSD 5.0 and SPARCstation 5 not a lucky combination

[Jon Buller <jon%bullers.net@localhost>]

Michael wrote:
> On Jul 29, 2009, at 11:44 PM, Jon Buller wrote:

> > And while on the subject of problems with the console, I saw this 
> > problem on my SS20s with either a cg6 or a cg14, and on my LX.  But
> >  before I got that far I had to install a 4.0 system and upgrade it
> > to 5 to see the wscons/video problem, as I couldn't get 5 on the
> > machine any other way.
>
> Hrm, I never saw it on any of my hardware but it's all running wscons
>  which was kind of the point of getting it in the first place.
>
> > It seems that 5_rc or -current from that time has some real
> > difficulty with starting up something.  It appeared the either
> > /dev/kbd disappeared when login finished, or login was unable to
> > pass open file descriptors for stdin and stdout to the shell it
> > forked.
>
> Any chance to check if this still happens with a wscons kernel?

Just checked.  I did a cvs update this morning, and did a full 
-current/sparc release build.  The miniroot.fs it generated seems to
be working fine.  Not that I did a full install with it, but I was
going through all the menus until I got to the parts that wrote
something out.  It's light-years ahead of the previous attempt with
5.0 or one of the later 5_RC builds.

Please get this pulled up ASAP, or we should update the install notes
to tell everyone not using a serial console how to custom build their
NetBSD-5/sparc install tools and kernels.  :)

Thanks,
Jon