Ok, this one sounds strange, but it seems to be true. I've recreated it twice.

When using Minicom to connect to the serial console, I've paniced the
Qube. The initial setting in minicom is for 9600 8N1, which I promptly
change to 115200 8N1 (which is the proper setting according to
/dev/ttys). When I hit enter a few times, I get a db> prompt. Ugly. I
think I might try a slower console setting.

For your reading pleasure, I did this the first time during the time I
was gzipping the new kernel in the linux /boot directory..., and
fortunately...., it didn't panic until the kernel was finished
gzipping apparently but the gzip process had not reported that it was
finished. That could have been really ugly!

And what's up with the login banner not reporting the kernel level correctly?

NetBSD/cobalt (taz.andy.com) (tty00)

login: andy
Password:
Last login: Wed Jul 14 13:49:41 2004 from 192.168.1.254
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        The NetBSD Foundation, Inc.  All rights reserved.
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NetBSD 1.6.1 (GENERIC) #0: Thu Jun 26 22:22:53 CEST 2003

Welcome to NetBSD!

(andy@taz)[/home/andy] > uname -a
NetBSD taz.andy.com 1.6.2_STABLE NetBSD 1.6.2_STABLE (TAZ1) #0: Wed Jul 14 12:5t
(andy@taz)[/home/andy] >

Thanks!

Andy