Lee Reynolds wrote:

>Something interesting happens on my Classic II with
>the latest binaries.  As before it will boot up in
>single user mode without a hitch.  When multiuser mode
>is attempted however it stops with the following line:
>
>Aug 27 07:40:13 getty[174]: /dev/ttyE0: No such file
>or directory

Sounds like your are mixing kernels and userland.  If you upgrade from 
1.4.2 to a later version and you don't expand the etc.tgz tarball you'll 
have to do the /etc file upgrades by hand, including /etc/ttys.

-bob