Re: port-mac68k/37474: After installing a system, booting into it, and mounting /, I get a message s

On Dec 11, 2007, at 8:21 AM, Hauke Fath wrote:

> At 12:55 Uhr +0000 11.12.2007, Thomas Carlson wrote:
>>  Booting...
>>  Magic numbers do not match -- Improper UFS
partition.
>>  Could not open kernel "netbsd".
>>
>>  Then I tried to boot into the system using the
GENERICSBC kernel on 
>> the
>>  Mac partition and got a message:
>>
>>  cannot mount root, error = 79
>>
>>  Could this have to do with the hard drive that I'm
using?  It's an
>>  Apple 1.3GB ATA drive piggybacked on a SCSI
converter card.
>
> Interesting... yours is the first report of somebody
trying to install 
> NetBSD/mac68k on such a drive. While there may be
incompatibilities on 
> the SCSI level... how big is your root partition? I
dimly recall some 
> of the old MacOS based tools having issues with
accessing partitions 
> beyond 1 GB. That's why I usually put the NetBSD
partitions first.

Just for the fun of it I formated the root partition (906
MB) and 
installed NetBSD 1.5.3 using the GENERIC kernel.  Everything
went fine. 
  I was able to boot into multi-user mode... no problem. 
It's not some 
of the old MacOS based tools that have a problem.  My guess
is that 
something has happened to NetBSD between version 1.5.3 and
4.0R5, which 
is plenty, I'm sure.  Again, thanks for bearing with me on
this little 
dilemma.

Tom

>> Interesting... yours is the first report of
somebody trying to install 
>> NetBSD/mac68k on such a drive. While there may be
incompatibilities on the 
>> SCSI level... how big is your root partition? I
dimly recall some of the 
>> old MacOS based tools having issues with accessing
partitions beyond 1 GB. 
>> That's why I usually put the NetBSD partitions
first.

What makes the drive special? mac68k has been installed on
just about 
every kind of drive I can think of.

> Just for the fun of it I formated the root partition
(906 MB) and installed 
> NetBSD 1.5.3 using the GENERIC kernel.  Everything went
fine.  I was able to 
> boot into multi-user mode... no problem.  It's not some
of the old MacOS 
> based tools that have a problem.  My guess is that
something has happened to 
> NetBSD between version 1.5.3 and 4.0R5, which is
plenty, I'm sure.  Again, 
> thanks for bearing with me on this little dilemma.

Was your 4.0 install done on a partition which was formatted
with mkfs 
under MacOS, or newfs under the NetBSD installer kernel?
mkfs is woefully 
out of date. On the other hand, you may be able to update
the 1.5 
installation to 4 once the filesystem is in use.

John