Hi,

Ok, I've answered some of my own questions. I couldn't find anything about 
booting into single user mode from the Cobalt: prompt, but I was able to 
use the running GNU/Linux system to reset the password using the front 
panel and reconfigure things.

Now I have a 2.0 kernel straight from ftp.NetBSD.org untargzipped and 
re-gzipped on the disk as /boot/netbsd.gz (which is what I did for the 
kernel that's on the NFS server). However, trying to boot this way:

bfd /boot/netbsd.gz

gives me:

Decompressing  done

but nothing else at all. Am I missing something, or is the kernel not 
working? I guess I'll try a 1.6.2 kernel next...

Thanks,
John Klos