Derek Carroll wrote:
> I've tried installing the latest NetBSD onto an old PowerBook 520c, and I
> can't seem to get it to boot properly.  No matter what I try, I seem to end
> up hanging during startup of NetBSD with the following message:
> 
> root on sd0a dumps on sd0b
> (with a solid block cursor sitting on the next line)
> 
> The partitions are correct, I checked with disklabel in the installer app.
> I ran Mkfs_1.45 before installing and everything...
> 
> Is there a special workaround for the newly-supported PB500-series, or am I
> just doing (or not doing) something dumb?

is your hard drive actually on sd0a?  you can look further up in the boot
message to be sure.  do you have a swap partition?  were there any
error-like messages during the boot?  you've basically reached the point
during boot where init should start running /etc/rc, so i'm not quite sure
why it would hang...

later.

colin