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

On Dec 12, 2007, at 10:20 AM, John Klos wrote:

> This is possible, and has happened on many kinds of
drives for me, be 
> they 500 meg SCSI or 500 gig IDE on SCSI-IDE bridges.
What I have 
> found that works well (if a bit slowly) is using the
Apple HD SC 
> utility to auto-partition a drive (just select any of
the defaults), 
> then making changes. For some reason, Apple HD SC and
Drive Setup both 
> leave little spaces between the driver sections and
partitions. When 
> didn't leave spaces, strage things would happen; I'd
mount a 
> partition, then see no files in it (including . and
..), or I'd start 
> to use it, then panic the machine because of filesystem
corruption.
>
> The spaces created by Apple HD SC appear to be only 16k
or so, so 
> you're not losing much by trying.

Before I format my hard drive and reinstall everything
again, would 
someone please tell me why NetBSD 1.5.3 works fine on my
Powerbook 180 
with its SCSI-IDE bridged drive and 4.0R5 doesn't?  What has
changed 
about the way NetBSD recognizes (or fails to in my case) the
root/usr 
partition that has created this problem?  Logic would tell
me that it 
isn't about how the drive is configured with Apple HD SC
Setup if it 
works for one version and not the other.

Tom

On Thu, Dec 13, 2007 at 06:05:42AM -0700, Thomas Carlson
wrote:
> Before I format my hard drive and reinstall everything
again, would 
> someone please tell me why NetBSD 1.5.3 works fine on
my Powerbook 180 
> with its SCSI-IDE bridged drive and 4.0R5 doesn't?

Is there any difference in the output of disklabel between
1.5.3 and 4.0?

Martin