Torbjorn Granlund <[email protected]> writes: Installation goes like a charm, using this (slightly shortened) command: qemu-system-sparc -m 256 -hda disk.img -cdrom sparccd-5.2.2.iso \ -boot d -nographic Ideally, qemu-system-sparc -m 256 -hda disk.img -nographic would boot the installed system, but alas, it does not. After many trials, and much help here and in private email, I decided to update qemu from 1.7.0 to 1.7.1. This helped for a plain 5.2.2 install; it can now boot from the newly installed disk.
Another solution would have been to compile a custom kernel with adequate default root file system, as suggested by Martin Husemann. Unfortunately, the currently recommended build.sh method for setting up a NetBSD cross environment seems to have arrived after 5.2.2, and building a kernel inside qemu might take a while. Call me silly, I should have tried upgrading qemu first thing. I didn't, since my experience is that upgrading qemu never helps (but downgrading actually often does!). (NetBSD 6.1.3 causes a crash in alst this newer qemu.) Torbjörn Please encrypt, key id 0xC8601622
