On Dec 8, 2007, at 11:29 AM, Hauke Fath wrote:
> At 17:11 Uhr -0700 4.12.2007, Thomas Carlson wrote:
>>> fsck_ffs -c2 /dev/rsd0a
>>
>> I reinstalled the everything and, after
successfully booting into a
>> fresh system, mounted /dev/sd0a and changing
/etc/rc.conf
>> appropriately. I then ran fsck_ffs -c2 /dev/rsd0a.
Got the
>> message...
>> BAD SUPER BLOCK: CAN'T FIND SUPERBLOCK and a core
dump.
>
> Hum.
>
>>> should be able to upgrade the filesystem to
something that makes
>>> sense
>>> to
>>> NetBSD 4. Otherwise... you'd need to set up the
disk from scratch
>>> with
>>> sysinst.
>>
>> The sysinst installation method is not available to
me as I don't have
>> a CD-ROM drive for my old Powerbook 180 and have to
install from files
>> located on the Mac partition. If the traditional
method no longer
>> works, it will leave a lot of older machines like
mine in the dust.
>> So
>> much for "Of course it runs NetBSD".
>
> Well, you can always boot the installation kernel, have
it set up the
> NetBSD partition(s), then do the actual installation
from the MacOS
> installer.
Well... I booted the installation kernel and used Sysinst to
reformat
my Mkfs created partitions. Upon reboot, my machine failed
to boot
into Macintosh. It must have messed up the MacOS partition.
I had to
use Macintosh Disk Tools to format the drive and reinstall
MacOS and
everything else leaving all but the MacOS partition free.
Then, I used
Sysinst to create a root/usr and swap partition. Upon
reboot, my
machine, once again, failed to boot into Macintosh and it
looks like
I'm about to reformat the drive and start all over again.
What's up
here? Has anyone actually used Sysinst to set up partitions
and then
install NetBSD from the MacOS installer? It doesn't seem to
work for
me.
Cheers, Tom
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