aha! powercycling seems to work (through serial console anyway).. now it's  
asking for the pathname for the shell..

Enter pathname of shell or RETURN for /bin/sh:
Nov 15 22:07:06 init: single user shell terminated, restarting
Process (pid 1) got signal 12
Process (pid 1) got signal 12
Process (pid 1) got signal 12
Process (pid 1) got signal 12
Enter pathname of shell or RETURN for /bin/sh: /bin/csh
Nov 15 22:07:57 init: single user shell terminated, restarting
Process (pid 1) got signal 12
Process (pid 1) got signal 12
Process (pid 1) got signal 12
Process (pid 1) got signal 12
Enter pathname of shell or RETURN for /bin/sh:


getting farther and farther...... :)

Patrix!

On Tue, 16 Nov 2004 05:55:01 +0300, Valeriy E. Ushakov <uwe@ptc.spbu.ru>  
wrote:
> My netwinder often hangs very early in the boot process even during
> serial console boot (but works ok afterwards), so when I was writing
> the wscons support it was hard to tell if a hang was due to a bug in a
> driver, or just some "random" hang.  If there's really a bug - someone
> with a stable machine should debug it.  As a palliative, try to power
> cycle the machine. :)
>
> Also, try booting 2.0 with serial console and see if igsfb0 attaches.
> Mine attaches as:


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