> 
> I tried a bunch of kernels on my PB160, and here's what happened.  Only one
> worked - PMTEST.961214.122.iv.ncr.tar.gz.  This one boots past single user
> but won't give me a command prompt.  It hangs after getting through

It's not particularly current and wouldn't handle the keyboard even if it
did.  Allen Briggs created a special kernel for me which might be helpful,
given the similarity to the PB145.  It's in puma.macbsd.com in the
/pub/outgoing/briggs folder, something like for.davagatw, I think.

See if that does any better.  I would ask about having current binaries,
but then the aforementioned kernel had been previously running with...
ahem... NetBSD 1.1_ALPHA binaries  (I bring this up regularly.) with no
problems except for ps, w, etc.  No trouble booting multi-user (except
that I forgot to adjust /etc/ttys the first time I tried, so it came up
serial console only....  :-)


Later,
David