>At 6:37 PM 3/30/96, Chris Ghormley wrote:
>>I was able to boot my Classic II with the generic#5 kernel several
>>times, even in multi-user mode.  My hard drive got corrupted during
>>repartitioning, though, and I had to rebuild NetBSD.  I think I had
>>everything set up as I did before, and the standard messages showed up on
>>my serial console regarding what kernel I was using, until the message
>>"ser0 at mainbus0" appeared, and the machine hung.
>
>Hmm... I'm confused, I was under the impression that the for_mays kernel
>was the only one that would work on a classic2...  the for_mays kernel
>boots single and multi fine for me but every time I try to switch to the
>generic5 kernel it hangs right after the line about the video address.  Did
>you have to do anything special to make it work?


GENERIG #5 works fine on my Classic II as well. Make sure your booter is
set to serial console and its probably best to have the console attached to
the modem port as there was a problem with using the printer port which I'm
not sure was fixed in this kernel. Generic 5 is much more stable IMO than
for_mays.

SteveB