Success!  I'm now downloading NetBSD-current onto my freshly
installed NetBSD-powered Ultra 5!  The bootstrap-from-Solaris method
was the only way I was able to successfully install.  I never ran
sysinst and I've got weird ffs slices now but at least it runs ;)
sshd/ssh and ftp all work great.  Some things I've noticed :

  * ifconfig -a lists 0.0.0.0 as the network address even after I
  successfully configure the hme0 device manually with ifconfig hme0
  10.0.0.2 netmask 255.255.255.0.

  * dhcp does not work.  After a couple seconds it starts spewing out
  'receive_packet failed on hme0: Invalid argument'.

  * The prom console is extremely painful to use.  Is anyone working
    on the native console for the PCI machines?

  * /etc/rc.conf.d/sshd does not work, but executing the keygen and sshd
  commands by hand does work.  So now that I can ssh into this box, the
  dog-slow prom console isn't as much of an issue.

  Right now I want to get a native toolchain on this box so that I can
continue the fun.  sup just goes to sleep on me so I'm downloading
NetBSD-current.tar via ftp right now.  Any suggestions for the easiest
way to get a toolchain on here?

  Thanks to everyone who offered assistance.  I'll have some patches
for the install documents RSN.

	- Murray

On 2 Nov 2000 eeh@netbsd.org wrote:
% It means that the bootblock was unable to locate
% /ofwboot in the root filesystem.  This could be
% due to a number of different reasons.  Make sure
% you copied it there first.