Have you tried stopping the boot process and then typing

boot /netbsd -s

That'll get it into single user mode. You'll probably have to

mount -f -u -w /

to force the root partition to be read/write and then you can fix your
alias.

Regards
Nigel

On Fri, May 11, 2001 at 02:47:53PM +0200, ...:::SHADI:::... wrote:
> hi!
> 
> totally lame but here goes my problem: on an old netbsd 1.4.2 machine i changed the ifaliases file. now the machine only hangs at
> boot time while setting the first alias.
> 
> how can i mount the hard drive using the boot disks in order to be able to correct my config? i have read the mount manual pages but
> still can't figure what block numbers mount needs.
> 
> any pointers would be very helpfull.
> 
> regards,
>   shadi
> 

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