> boot single-user
> `mount -u /`
> edit /etc/netstart (startnet?), find the line for timed, and change
>   'YES' to 'NO'
> 
> Then hit control-d and it should boot.

I just tried that, and here's what happens...

booting single user was fine as always.
i did fsck to make sure the file system was clean.  It was.

mount -u /

mounted root as read write like it should.

When I looked at /etc/netstart all of the variables were set to no, so I 
left them. (should some of them been yes.  I don't have a network)

I then hit ctrl-D which should boot it into multi user and the followin 
is what it said:

swapon: permission denied
unmount: permission denied
ttyflags: permission denied
starting network
add host myname.my.domain:gateway localhost
starting rpc daemons: portmap.
starting system logger, time daemon

and thats where it dies.  Now that I look at it again, I wonder if the 
permission denieds that I'm getting are my problem.  I wrote them off 
earlier as because I don't have a network, but now I notice that they are 
before starting network.

Any body have any more suggestions.

I don't think I made it clear in my original post that I'm using a 
special kernel for the powerbook made by Walter Ruetten.  That is why I 
tried to boot on the IIsi using the normal netbsd11 kernel.  I wanted to 
prove that it wasn't a quirk of the powerbook or a feature of the special 
kernel.

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