On Sun, 3 May 1998 20:05:43 -0700 (PDT),
SamMaEl <rimsky@teleport.com> wrote:
> 
> 	Out of boredom, I tried booting NetBSD on a spare external disk I
> have lying around on my Q900. I was surprised, because I tried it a few
> months ago and booting caused the computer to just automatically reboot,
> as if I had rebooted normally. This time I actually got a console! Woo,
> progress!
[...]

Interesting.  I somehow doubt the machine was really `hung' as you
describe.  What if you booted the machine with serial console?  You
have another NetBSD box which you can use as the console, right?

Ken