> I tried and failed.

Bummer :-(

> introduced with BETA-1 (I have never got a kernel panic with BETA-0
> kernel), and self configuration procedure doesn't run successfully

Could you tell me when the panic(s) happened?  I think it's the same
kernel as BETA-0...  It is the same kernel that I've been running for
several days, now...

> either.  I get complaints about read only filesystem (of course /) and
> unfound "mount", "touch" and so on.  Apparently it tries to accessing
> filesystems before properly mounting them.

oof.  That's what I get for making assumptions about the path...  I've
just gone through and made all the paths absolute.

> I tried to see what's wrong with /etc/rc, but I couldn't do that due

Thanks...  I appreciate your effort...  Hopefully I'll be able to test
this stuff mo' better when the rest of my hard drive storage appears...

-allen

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= Over the years you swam the ocean following feelings of your own [...]  =
== It's a shame to have to die to put the shadow on our eyes.  We don't  ==
=== want to care. Under the bridge. Over the phone. Wind on the Water.  ===

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