Hello,

> but i'm very confused as to how that would stop it from being able to boot with
> no machine or cable plugged into mc0!!
Argh, somehow I misread your previous post. So the NetBSD kernel boots but init hangs when configuring mc0? Did you configure a standard gateway? If you did it tries to contact the gateway and waits for an answer - just hit ctrl-c and it should continue booting.

have fun
Michael