>ouch. my system won't boot :\
>i have a Mav IIvx, 20MB ram, external 270MB root&usr quantum drive.
>i set this up a while ago and had no problems before...but not now...
>when i boot now, i'm getting the "[preserving XXXXX bytes in netbsd symbol
>table screen]" and the text just stops flowing. it just STOPS.
>first time it stopped just when it should have said NetBSD GENERIC#1,
>compiled by scottr@spot, blahblah...
>second time it stopped right after realmem = 20971520 (which is three lines
>after the kernel is booting...
>third time it stopped at the copyright message, and stopped at "All ri". it
>never got the "ghts reserved.".
>could i assume hardware error? this seems really wierd.
>i think this may have occured from some things i did in the installer
>utility. i went into /lost+found (through the minishell) and deleted a file
>there, as well as an "ftpd.core" in / , which i don't even remember getting
>while my machine was up.
>now, i'm seeing these "fstat : No such file or directory" messages when i'm
>ls-ing in the minishell in the installer utility 1.0. did i do something
>seriously incorrect? :\
>i'm going to try messing around with the hardware, because i also put the
>270MB NetBSD drive in a different case this past weekend...
>any suggestions?
>all are appreciated...
>thanks!
>  - a

anyone?
:-\
  - a