Before you start you might need to consider your disk configuration to sort out a quirk in SCSI-ID to SD-UNIT mapping that exists on Sun Sparcstations. Upon leaving the factory, SunOS and the OpenBOOT ROM map according to this table: SCSI-ID -> SunOS SD-UNIT 0 sd3 1 sd1 2 sd2 3 sd0 4 sd4 5 sd5 6 sd6 Unlike SunOS and the OpenBOOT ROM, a generic OpenBSD kernel numbers scsi drives sequentially as it finds them. The drive with the lowest scsi-id will be called sd0, the next one sd1, etc. To ease the installation process, the default OpenBSD kernel in the distribution is setup to match the Sun mapping above by hard-wiring scsi-id#3 to sd0 and scsi-id#0 to sd3. The remaining drives will be dynamically mapped to other sd* numbers. A truely generic OpenBSD kernel is also provided as `/bsd.GENERIC', which will do the standard OpenBSD probe ordering. If your configuration differs from the default Sun setup, you can try to use this kernel to complete the installation. NOTE: this is also a concern when you start building your own customised kernels. Your OpenBOOT ROM may need some setup. make sure you boot from `new command mode'. If your machine comes up and gives you a `>' prompt instead of `ok', type: >n ok setenv sunmon-compat? false ok This is needed because OpenBSD cannot handle the old-mode yet, and will firework on you. Also, you cannot use the security modes of the sparc OpenBOOT ROM. ok setenv security-mode none