Looks like you're having serious problems all round.

Do you have a swap partition configured? 
Next time can you relate (a) the exact settings in the booter and
(b) the exact messages that come up during boot (you can run 'dmesg' to 
get most of those)

d

On Sun, 1 Mar 1998 t97904ti@sfc.keio.ac.jp wrote:

> Date: Sun, 01 Mar 1998 06:02:15 +0900
> From: t97904ti@sfc.keio.ac.jp
> To: port-mac68k@NetBSD.ORG
> Subject: X booting problem on IIsi
> 
> Hi all,
> 
> 	I have Mac IIsi (RAM %MB, HD 80MB) with NetBSD 1.2.1 installed. 
> I always encounter this weird error message (shown below) when
> I load X,
> 
> Feb 28 12:43:34 hostname inetd[78]: pmap_set: 100008 1 17 1027: 
> Address already in use
> 
> After I get several of these messages, it goes back to console
>  without any notice.  Also, I my startx.log file displayed below erros:
> 
> Screen 0 at 0x41ab000, 640 by 480, rowB 80, fbbase 0xbf5000.
> X connection to :0.0 broken (explicit kill or server shutdown.)
> X connection to :0.0 broken (explicit kill or server shutdown.)
> xinit: connection to X server lost.
> 
> Whats happening?? Please help.
> 
> thanks.
> 

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