> 
> >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?

Are you on a LocalTalk net? This sounds like what the current serial
driver will do when LocalTalk is around. Shielding doesn't work just
yet.

Take care,

Bill