On Mon, 8 Feb 1999, Paul Goyette wrote:

> It sounds like you're hitting the known "system hangs with multiple
> disks" problem that has been plaguing the NetBSD/Mac68k kernel since
> about last September or October.  Several people are desparately trying
> to find this bug, but so far have been unsuccessful.

However, Guy Santigla is running 1.3.2, so that can't be the problem,
exactly.

> > 7 partitions:
> > #        size   offset    fstype   [fsize bsize   cpg]
> >   a:       32      144     unknown                        # (Cyl.    0*- 0*)
> >   b:   268630   260176         HFS                        # (Cyl. 1355*- 2754*)
> >   c:   528808        0      unused        0     0         # (Cyl.    0 - 2754*)
> >   d:        2   528806     unknown                        # (Cyl. 2754*- 2754*)
> >   g:   260000      176      4.2BSD        0     0     0   # (Cyl.    0*- 1355*)
> > disklabel: boot block size 0
> > disklabel: super block size 0

Here's a shot in the dark. Use Mkfs to make that tiny `d' partition
into a swap, and add it to the fstab with priority=1, like so:
``/dev/sd0b none swap sw,priority=1 0 0''. It will be the partition on
the bottom of the list, with some name like "Apple Free".

Even before this last bug, I had a similar problem with Nomai 540
removable cartridges. They absolutely would not behave unless a swap
partition was listed in the fstab. With the swap (has to be in the
fstab), no matter how small, it would boot and run just fine.