> i have had this problem too, for a while, and last i reported about it, 
> some people responded that this problem occurs if you do not unmount your 
> mfs filesystems before rebooting.  this worked for some people but not 
> me, because i don't have an mfs on my system, nor do i even have it 
> compiled into my kernel!  so, i guess that's not the real problem since i 
> still can't automatically reboot my machine without a hard reset.

I run mfs, yet usually don't have problems rebooting.  Occasionally I
have had to use the big red button, however, which never used to
happen before.

I have a Gateway 2000 486dx2/66 VLB:

NetBSD 1.0A (WEAVER) #2: Mon May 15 17:54:14 EDT 1995
    mhw@weaver.tsq-b.brown.edu:/usr/src/sys/arch/i386/compile/WEAVER
CPU: i486DX (486-class CPU)
real mem  = 16121856
avail mem = 13803520
using 222 buffers containing 909312 bytes of memory
isa0 (root)
com0 at isa0 port 0x3f8-0x3ff irq 4: ns16550a, working fifo
com1 at isa0 port 0x2f8-0x2ff irq 5: ns16550a, working fifo
com2 at isa0 port 0x3e8-0x3ef irq 9: ns16550a, working fifo
lpt0 at isa0 port 0x3bc-0x3c3: polled
uha0 at isa0 port 0x330-0x33f irq 11
scsibus0 at uha0
uha0 targ 0 lun 0: <IMPRIMIS, 94601-15, 4614> SCSI1 0/direct fixed
sd0 at scsibus0: 992MB, 1931 cyl, 15 head, 70 sec, 512 bytes/sec
uha0 targ 1 lun 0: <ARCHIVE, VIPER 2525 25462, -007> SCSI1 1/sequential removable
st0 at scsibus0: rogue, drive empty
uha0 targ 2 lun 0: <NEC, CD-ROM DRIVE:501, 2.2> SCSI2 5/cdrom removable
cd0 at scsibus0: drive empty
wdc0 at isa0 port 0x1f0-0x1f7 irq 14
wd0 at wdc0 drive 0: 325MB, 1010 cyl, 12 head, 55 sec, 512 bytes/sec <WDC AC2340H>
wd0: using 16-sector 16-bit pio transfers, chs addressing
wd1 at wdc0 drive 1: 515MB, 1048 cyl, 16 head, 63 sec, 512 bytes/sec <WDC AC2540H>
wd1: using 16-sector 16-bit pio transfers, lba addressing
ed0 at isa0 port 0x280-0x29f iomem 0xd0000-0xd3fff irq 3: address 00:00:c0:95:9a:73, type SMC8216/SMC8216C (16-bit) aui
pas0 at isa0 port 0x220-0x22f irq 7 drq 1 ProAudio Spectrum 16 [rev 255] : dsp v2.00
npx0 at isa0 port 0xf0-0xff: using exception 16
vt0 at isa0 port 0x60-0x6f irq 1: generic, 80 col, color, 8 scr, mf2-kbd, [R3.20-b24]
fdc0 at isa0 port 0x3f0-0x3f7 irq 6 drq 2
fd0 at fdc0 drive 0: 1.44MB 80 cyl, 2 head, 18 sec
fd1 at fdc0 drive 1: 1.2MB 80 cyl, 2 head, 15 sec
root device eisa not configured
root device pci not configured
biomask 48c0 netmask 23a ttymask 232

	Mark
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