Hi folx

Well, I'm beginning to think my Quadra just really doesn't like 1.5 Alpha2...

You'll recall It was crashing on boot until I worked out it had to be 
freshly rebooted at 256 colours or under... so I solved that one. I 
then decided to reinstall from scratch to be on the safe side....

I now can boot up to the point where it says "rc.conf not configured" 
etc. So I configure it, adding various mostly networking things from 
my 1.4.2 rc.conf and then exit the single user shell. Then it tries 
to come up multi-user and panics, without fail, shortly after 
"Configuring network interfaces".

Then I have to reboot it into single user again, fsck the filesystem 
so I can try reediting rc.conf again and panic it again. No matter 
what I do to rc.conf I can't get it to not panic at this point. I've 
tried:

auto_ifconfig=NO                                # config all avail. interfaces
net_interfaces=""                               # used only if above is NO

And I've also tried:

auto_ifconfig=NO                                # config all avail. interfaces
net_interfaces="mc0"                               # used only if above is NO

but pretty much the same thing happens. In the second case, I get a 
few extra lines after "Configuring network interfaces" and before the 
panic, namely:

/etc/rc: WARNING: /etc/ifconfig.mc0 missing and ifconfig_mc0 not set;
/etc/rc: WARNING: interface mc0 not configured.
.
Kernel Illegal Instruction trap.
...


Is there a sure fire way to get netbsd to boot up and not ifconfig 
anything at all? I've got a feeling it's an interface driver that's 
causing it to panic... I'd like to get it up to multiuser so I can 
then try manually ifconfig'ing to see what happens...

cheers

jesse
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