> 
> 
> And yet another note from that Centris 610 owner...
> 
> I think I've found part of my difficulties, now I need
> help figuring out how to fix it.
> 
> I was having trouble booting into multi-user--it would panic
> just before checking the SCSI bus. If I booted into single-user
> and mounted /dev/sd0g onto /usr, then went multi-user, it would work.
> As it went into multi-user, it would complain that /dev/sd0a and
> /dev/sd0g weren't clean and that I should run fsck. So I did.
> Next time I tried mounting /usr, it complained of a bad superblock.
> Hmph. So I remade the partitions, using mkfs (MacOS side). This
> time I selected the optimize for time, instead of the default
> optimize for space--is this not a good idea, or does it matter?
> 
> As a test, I installed everything on /dev/sd0a,and left /dev/sd0g
> empty. Voila, now I could boot directly to multi-user.

Check out your /etc/fstab & make sure it is really pointing to
/dev/sd0g; sometimes the installer gets goofy.

> And finally, I am thinking about using the -current snapshot Steve
> Allen mentioned today, but what is SBC SCSI? I am starting to wonder
> which of all these kernels to settle on (netbsd.quadra, netbsd.quadra_dual,
> netbsd.scampbel, netbsd.current) and what the differences really are
> between them.

SBC is a different SCSI driver. It performs better under certain
circumstances.

Take care,

Bill