> Hmm - if you type 'setenv sunmon-compat?=false' at the PROM
> then reset does everything work from that point on?

yep - done that - it now seems to work but this is an intermittent problem

i'v rebooted 2 times now and gotten all the way to the X login screen

this last time i'v Stop-A'd, wiggled the mouse and rebooted - its just
displayed 
	Booting from: sd(0,0,0)netbsd
	Level 12 Interrupt

which is a totally new error

i'v just typed reboot and it's gone back to Testing - 
and is working for the third time ... this is looking fixed.


question - whats with the sunmon-compat? (i'm not that familiar with sun
hardware and i'v just switched over to NetBSD after suffering with Solaris)