y> I have been able to install netbsd on my starmax. However, the
y> kernel hangs right after checking "wd1". 

  I am running 3000/240, and in the past I got the same simptom.

  I can't remember exactly, but at the time I got the problem, I
have disabled wd1 (which I don't have anyway), by re-configure
kernel.  I am not sure if the recent release needs this fix.

--- sys/arch/macppc/conf/DE	Tue Feb 23 23:16:55 1999
+++ sys/arch/macppc/conf/DE-no-WDC1	Wed Mar  3 19:04:05 1999
@@ -154,7 +154,8 @@
 zstty0	at zsc0 channel 0
 zstty1	at zsc0 channel 1
 
-wdc*	at obio0 flags 0x0
+wdc0	at obio0 flags 0x0
+#dc*	at obio0 flags 0x0
 wd*	at wdc? channel ? drive ? flags 0x0000
 
 atapibus* at wdc? channel ?

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Makoto Fujiwara, Chiba Japan