On Fri, Aug 30, 2002 at 05:32:36PM +0100, Patrick Welche wrote:
> For some reason, I no longer see any bios messages, and the first thing
> that comes up is the NetBSD bootloader. The newish kernel (13 Aug) loads

This sounds vaguely like a problem i had once with a toshiba laptop
- it somehow got stuck in a suspend/resume cycle instead of rebooting
properly.

Try yanking the battery and leaving the machine for a while.

And yes, start thinking about other ways to get your data off :/

--
Dan.