In article <199808151149.GAA02369@dahan.metonymy.com> you write:
>
>>Category:       port-i386
>>Synopsis:       panic: pool_get: must have NOWAIT
>
>Pentium, 166MHz, 64MB RAM
>
>NetBSD 1.3G (SPIFF) #241: Sat Aug 15 05:43:25 CDT 1998
>    khym@dahan.metonymy.com:/usr/src.local/sys/arch/i386/compile/SPIFF

This does not seem to be port-i386 specific; I also get it on
a sparc 2 when booting over the net and mounting an nfs root filesystem.

Some time after the boot process has finished, the panic above happens.
The problem vanished after connecting a hard disk to the machine 
and using it as root/swap.

-- 
      Benjamin <lorenz@dfki.de>