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From: thorpej@baygate.bayarea.net (Jason R. Thorpe)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc
Subject: Re: Help a NIX newbie with kernel panic
Date: 15 Sep 1996 16:07:37 GMT
Organization: George's NetBSD answer man
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>> I can boot in single user mode, but when I try to boot in normal 
>> multi-user mode, I get a kernel panic every time.
>
>Just a wild off the top of my head thought, but you have done a
>'./MAKEDEV all' in /dev haven't you?

That shouldn't cause a panic, and given that he can boot into single-user,
this indicates some sort of real problem (other than just misconfiguration).

Unfortunately, the original poster didn't say what the panic _was_ :-)
If he could do that, this would be a lot easier to diagnose :-)

Ciao.

-- 

	Jason R. Thorpe <thorpej@bayarea.net>