In message <3738E91D.112D6644@bcl.co.nz>Chris Mackerell writes
>Jonathan Stone wrote:

>I'd been booting 1.4_BETA without any problems, then
>did a complete re-install of 1.4.

Drat. I'm using an ELF kernel with the not-quite-release
bootblocks, the ones that garble the first line or so of PROM
output. Yet it is definitely finding ELF symbols.

Can you try hitting the DO key (or send a break on a serial console),
do a `trace' at the ddb DB> prompt, and see if you get symbols?

Does `file /netbsd' say you've got ECOFF or ELF?

>Windy :-)

It's may, I coulda guessed  that. Too windy to sail in Evans Bay?