Seth Kurtzberg wrote:
> There is no fd device on a sparc 5.  It doesn't interpret it as a device 
> anyway, it appears, as the boot prom prints:
> 
> Boot device: /pci@1f,0/pci@1,1/ide@3/disk@0,0:a  File and args:  fd
> boot:  cannot open fd
> Enter filename [fd]:
> 
> which means it is looking for a file named "fd" on the hard drive.
> 
> On Wednesday 19 March 2003 07:27 pm, Greywolf wrote:
> 
>>Thus spake Seth Kurtzberg ("SK> ") sometime Today...
>>
>>SK> I'm attempting to install netbsd on a sparc 5 with little success. 
>>I've tried SK> the sparc floppies, the sparc CD, and the sparc64 floppies. 
>>the different SK> "boot" statements (in the PROM) get different results,
>>but none work.  The SK> help for the PROM lists "boot floppy".  however,
>>"boot floppy" gets "Can't SK> open boot device."  The floppy does work,
>>however, because when I boot SK> Solaris the floppy is mounted.
>>
>>"boot fd"

So you've loaded NetBSD and can't boot afterwards? Or you can't boot off 
the cd to load? Or are you using the downloaded version?

My U1 boots off "disk1 disk0".

ciao!

leam