Excerpts from netbsd: 7-Sep-97 Re: Problems making 1.2G bo.. Michael
Graff@flame.org (302)

> > What do the bootblocks report?
> 
> Ahh, of course.  638/31744 K

Seems ok...
What I'm wondering about:

> I have DDB installed in the kernel.  However, "boot -sd" will not pause
> before running the kernel.
> [...]
> I think it is crashing right after printing out the real memory in the
> system

The debugger should be called before the memory is printed.
Either, there is something wrong with DDB, or it's another
printout - There should not be any printout between consinit()
and ddb_init(). (Or, the error happens before or at console
initialization, and what you see is a random side effect.)

best regards
Matthias