My Blue and White G3 behaved similarly.  The system wasn't hanging, just the
USB bus seemed to hang.  When I plugged in an ADB keyboard, the second
keyboard continued to function after I answered the "root device" questions.
I compiled a kernel with the boot device hard wired.  The system now boots
without stopping to ask for a root device, and the USB keyboard continues to
work. 

Eric Berna
eberna@asq.org


On 8/30/05 5:03 PM, "Sean Trifero" <sean@trifero.com> wrote:

> I get to the "root device" prompt, enter in my root partition wd0a, then I
> enter my swap partition (wd0b) at the next prompt.  Next I am prompted for a
> "File System", I have tried FFS & Generic (default).  Finally I am prompted
> with the message "Enter pathname of shell or RETURN for /bin/sh".  I can't
> enter text, control+c out of it, hit enter for the shell, nothing.  The
> system just hangs until reboot.  What could be causing this?
> 
> --
> Sean Trifero
>