>>
>> >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.
>
cool, that worked beautifully, i just switched my network connection in
MacOS (to the apple nubus ethernet card i have which i never have used
before), and shut off appletalk.
works great now, thanks a lot!
question: why does this happen?
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