In article <38E684FD.88928C29@cs.helsinki.fi>, ville hautakangas
<vhautaka@cs.Helsinki.FI> writes
>
>I think I'll next try to build a new kernel, so's I can let it boot 
>by itself without specifying root

This seems to be a common problem with 1.4.2  I was told that it was
because my bootloader was too old when I was trying to boot the 1.4T
kernel, but having reinstalled since due to a stupid mistake with newfs
:(  I see the same symptoms with the plain 1.4.2 installation.
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Regards
Pete