>> but the Sept snapshot has gone past this and is hanging with a trap 2 as
>> follows:
>>
>> changing root device to sd1a
>> PRAM: 0x308035bb, macos_boottime: 0x308035ac
>> Kernel Illegal Instruction trap
>> trap type 2, code=0, v=0
>>
>> ...register dumps...
>>
>> panic: Illegal instruction
>> Stopped at ...
>>
>> Then I believe I'm kicked out into the debugger. I don't know enough yet to
>> use the debugger to help myself to the fix, so I'm relying on those of you
>> who are further along to help me over this last (I hope) hump.
>
>Ooo! Sounds familiar. Are you running with "Autosize" set on in the booter?
>If not, try setting it. I was setting my memory to 1 MB less than real
>(as a while ago that helped w/ internal video). On the July-ish kernels,
>for some reason, this causes a bug in the forking of init (the first real
>program run by the kernel). It's really bizzar. But setting autosize makes
>it all better.
>
>Good luck,
>
>Bill

You were right on the money, Bill!  After I set the booter to autosize,
everything came right up. Thanks a lot for that tip!

'till my next problem,

Derek Gransaull,
Foster City, CA
gransaul@best.com