> The other possibility is that your pmax is like some alphas, in that it
> comes up single-user by default and has to be told to come up
> multi-user (it seems brain-damaged to me, but that is apparently the
> way DEC OSes worked, and NetBSD decided to be compatible instead of
> sane).  Try booting with -a, and/or see the port-pmax FAQ (a Web
> version is available at http://www.netbsd.org/Ports/pmax/faq.html; the
> section on "Some useful PROM commands" looks relevant here).

I think this is it, and from memory the PROM needs to boot the kernel with
the -a flag.

Hangover from ULTRIX, perhaps?

Cheers,

	- Joel