On May 21, 2004, at 8:45 PM, Paul Sander wrote:

> I just installed NetBSD 1.6.2 on a Quadra 700.  This is an upgrade from
> 1.5 but I wiped the root partition and used the newest version of the
> booter to launch the generic kernel.
>
> During the initial boot, the kernel starts up and discovers all of the
> devices connected to the system.  Right around the time it mounts the
> root filesystem, the machine freezes and I must hit the reset button or
> cycle power.

Hmmm.  Did you "sh MAKEDEV all" when you did the install?