> After having the machine lock up I rebooted and fixed the 
> problems with the disk.  Now the 'w' and 'ps' and 'swapinfo' commands do 
> not work.  They just hang.  Control-C exits them.  But they still don't 
> work.  I've re-installed the kernal, and the binaries and also the /etc 
> directory.  I am still working on the others.  Has anyone else had this 
> problem?  Does anyone have a suggestion to fix this?

Yah... Get a decent /etc/rc to run if you don't have one already.  This
will make sure that the proper daemons get loaded and that the correct
databases are built.  If you kernel is installed as /netbsd, I can't
think of anything else to try, off-hand.

> partition at /dev/sd1g  How did it get their?  Is their a program that 

It got there by not having the ROOT bit set in the BZB(?) part of the
partition info.

> will search for BSD partitions on a drive so i don't have to go looking 
> for them?

Try disklabel's read-only options...

I'm thinking about revamping the disklabelling a bit...

-allen

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