Hello.  I'm not sure if this is a bug or not, but it could be.  I 
installed NetBSD-1.3.3 on my recently-aquired sparcs.  One has a large 
drive, while the others have small 100meg drives with / and swap and /usr 
mounted NFS.  Upon booting the NFS-relying ones, it would hang at 
"setting tty flags" which I could ^C out of to continue booting.  I 
examined /etc/rc, and found this:

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[begin /etc/rc snippit]

# set flags on ttys.  (do early, in case they use tty for SLIP in netstart)
echo 'setting tty flags'
ttyflags -a

# load kernel modules specified in /etc/lkm.conf if the /usr filesystem
# is already present with "/" or can be mounted now
if checkyesno lkm && [ -f /etc/rc.lkm ]; then
        mount /usr >/dev/null 2>&1
        if [ -x /usr/bin/ld ]; then
                lkmstage=BEFORENET
                . /etc/rc.lkm
        fi
fi

# set hostname, turn on network
echo 'starting network'
sh /etc/netstart
if [ $? -ne 0 ]; then
        exit 1
fi

[end /etc/rc snippit]
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Mounting /usr is not possible before starting the network, since it's 
NFS mounted.  I moved the "load kernel module" chunk after /etc/netstart, 
and now have no problem.

-Mouse

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