In my mail a few minutes ago, I listed said the 4c miniroot failed
   completely, I was wrong, the plain 4 miniroot failed on execution.
   
   The 4c booted most of the way.  It appears to be failing somewhere
   after probing the hardware, possiblly on the rc files.
   
   If someone is interested, I can boot it again and write down the last
   couple of lines.

yes, this would be useful in attempting to diagnose the problem.

if you can also tell us exactly what you did to install the
miniroot, and, what you did to boot it ?


thanks.