On Thu, 18 Jul 1996, Josh Hope wrote:

> I don't know what was wrong w/ me :)

Um, judging from the time of this message, "not enough sleep"? ;-)

> Only a few things trouble me when NetBSD boots up, especially the fact is 
> says it's rebooting (but then it starts up). Something about that 
> coredump check...

If it says it's rebooting, it reboots.  Are you referring to the
"Automatic boot in progress: ..." message?  And what about the savecore
check?

> Whenever I boot in NetBSD, my internal HD makes some strange 
> noises...some I've never heard before :) Sounds like stuff moving in 
> there (and not the normal read/write activity)...

It probably the drive recalibrating after a SCSI bus reset.  This
happens early in the SCSI driver initialization (at least with the sbc
driver).

--scott