Hi,

what are possible reasons for not booting into multi user mode?

this is the dmesg output

NetBSD 1.4 (ALICE) #1: Tue Jul  6 21:09:35 MEST 1999
    root@alice.turbocat.de:/raid/usr/src/sys/arch/i386/compile/ALICE
cpu0: family 6 model 5 step 0
cpu0: Intel Pentium II (686-class)
real mem  = 15335424
avail mem = 11444224
using 212 buffers containing 868352 bytes of memory
mainbus0 (root)
pci0 at mainbus0 bus 0: configuration mode 1
pci0: i/o enabled, memory enabled
pchb0 at pci0 dev 0 function 0
pchb0: vendor 0x8086 product 0x7190 (rev. 0x02)
ppb0 at pci0 dev 1 function 0: vendor 0x8086 product 0x7191 (rev. 0x02)
pci1 at ppb0 bus 1
pci1: i/o enabled, memory enabled
pcib0 at pci0 dev 7 function 0
pcib0: vendor 0x8086 product 0x7110 (rev. 0x02)
vendor 0x8086 product 0x7111 (IDE mass storage, interface 0x80, revision  
0x01) at pci0 dev 7 function 1 not configured
vendor 0x8086 product 0x7112 (USB serial bus, revision 0x01) at pci0 dev 7  
function 2 not configured
vendor 0x8086 product 0x7113 (miscellaneous bridge, revision 0x02) at pci0  
dev 7 function 3 not configured
vga1 at pci0 dev 8 function 0: vendor 0x5333 product 0x8811 (rev. 0x00)
wsdisplay0 at vga1: console (80x25, vt100 emulation)
de0 at pci0 dev 9 function 0
de0: interrupting at irq 15
de0: 21041 [10Mb/s] pass 2.1
de0: address 00:40:05:50:c9:0c
ahc0 at pci0 dev 12 function 0
ahc0: interrupting at irq 9
ahc0: Using left over BIOS settings
ahc0: aic7880 Wide Channel, SCSI Id=7, 16 SCBs
scsibus0 at ahc0 channel 0: 16 targets, 8 luns per target
ahc0: target 0 using 16Bit transfers
ahc0: target 0 synchronous at 10.0MHz, offset = 0x8
sd0 at scsibus0 targ 0 lun 0: <IBM, DDRS-34560W, S97B> SCSI2 0/direct fixed
sd0: 4357MB, 8387 cyl, 5 head, 212 sec, 512 bytes/sect x 8925000 sectors
ahc0: target 1 using 16Bit transfers
ahc0: target 1 synchronous at 10.0MHz, offset = 0x8
sd1 at scsibus0 targ 1 lun 0: <IBM, DDRS-34560W, S97B> SCSI2 0/direct fixed
sd1: 4357MB, 8387 cyl, 5 head, 212 sec, 512 bytes/sect x 8925000 sectors
isa0 at pcib0
com0 at isa0 port 0x3f8-0x3ff irq 4: ns16550a, working fifo
com1 at isa0 port 0x2f8-0x2ff irq 3: ns16550a, working fifo
com2 at isa0 port 0x3e8-0x3ef irq 5: ns16550a, working fifo
pckbc0 at isa0 port 0x60-0x64
pckbd0 at pckbc0 (kbd slot)
pckbc0: using irq 1 for kbd slot
wskbd0 at pckbd0: console keyboard
opmsprobe: command error
pcppi0 at isa0 port 0x61
sysbeep0 at pcppi0
isapnp0 at isa0 port 0x279: ISA Plug 'n Play device support
npx0 at isa0 port 0xf0-0xff: using exception 16
fdc0 at isa0 port 0x3f0-0x3f7 irq 6 drq 2
fd0 at fdc0 drive 0: 1.44MB, 80 cyl, 2 head, 18 sec
isic0 at isa0 port 0xe80-0xe87 iomem 0xc8000-0xc8fff irq 11
isic0: Teles S0/16, Creatix ISDN S0-16 or Niccy 1016
isic0: ISAC 2085 Version V2.3 (B3) (IOM-1)
isic0: HSCX 82525 or 21525 Version 2.1
isapnp0: no ISA Plug 'n Play devices found
apm0 at mainbus0: Power Management spec V1.1 (slowidle)
apm0: A/C state: on
apm0: battery charge state: no battery
biomask 240 netmask 8a40 ttymask 8a42
Kernelized RAIDframe activated
i4b: ISDN call control device attached
i4btrc: 2 ISDN trace device(s) attached
i4bctl: ISDN system control port attached
i4brbch: 4 raw B channel access device(s) attached
i4btel: 2 ISDN telephony interface device(s) attached
i4bipr: 2 IP over raw HDLC ISDN device(s) attached (VJ header compression)
i4bisppp: 2 ISDN SyncPPP device(s) attached
wscons: wskbd0 glued to wsdisplay0 (console)
boot device: sd0
root on sd0a dumps on sd0b
root file system type: ffs
RAIDFRAME: protectedSectors is 64
raid0: Component /dev/sd0e being configured at row: 0 col: 0
         Row: 0 Column: 0 Num Rows: 1 Num Columns: 2
         Version: 1 Serial Number: 19990407 Mod Counter: 48539825
         Clean: 0 Status: 0
/dev/sd0e is not clean!
raid0: Component /dev/sd1e being configured at row: 0 col: 1
         Row: 0 Column: 1 Num Rows: 1 Num Columns: 2
         Version: 1 Serial Number: 19990407 Mod Counter: 48539825
         Clean: 0 Status: 0
/dev/sd1e is not clean!
RAIDFRAME: Configure (RAID Level 0): total number of sectors is 17029376 (8315 MB)
RAIDFRAME(RAID Level 0): Using 6 floating recon bufs with no head sep limit

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my /etc/raid0.conf is this:

START array
#numrow numcol numspare
1 2 0
START disks
/dev/sd0e
/dev/sd1e

START layout
32 1 1 0

START queue
fifo 1
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The box worked, I rebooted it again after some work and now, it goes only  
into single user mode :-(

TIA

Dave