On Wed, 6 May 1998, Jason Powell wrote:

> 
> On Tue, 5 May 1998, Chris Jones wrote:
> 
> > and then nothing.  The pointer becomes the cute little watch icon, and it
> > doesn't move when I move the mouse.  This is after booting with the shift
> > key down, with virtual memory off in the control panel, Monitors set to 1 
> > bit depth. MacOS 7.6.
> 
>   This happened to me.  It just sat there with it's happy little watch
> until I reset it.  My problem was the kernel wasn't on the NetBSD
> partition, if it's not, you might try putting it there and try booting
> again.

How about trying to boot from a gzipped kernel in the Booter folder? If it
works, it would tend to exonerate MacOS and the Booter, and then you could
look for problems with the NetBSD partition, (besides the obvious).