The following reply was made to PR port-mac68k/37474; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Thomas Carlson <tcarlson@myback40.com>
To: gnats-bugs@NetBSD.org
Cc: 
Subject: Re: port-mac68k/37474: After installing a system, booting into it, and mounting /, I get a message saying that the magic numbers don't match upon reboot.
Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2007 05:56:53 -0700

 On Dec 10, 2007, at 8:25 AM, Hauke Fath wrote:
 >  Okay... I cranked up a Macintosh IIvx (8 MB RAM):
 >
 >  - partitioned A/UX root&usr / A/UX swap / Macintosh HFS
 >  - got the latest Mkfs 1.47 and Installer 1.1h from a NetBSD 4rc5
 >  snapshot of today
 >  - ran Mkfs on the root&usr partition
 >  - ran the Installer with netbsd_GENERICSBC.tgz, base.tgz and etc.tgz 
 > (70 min)
 >  - made the devices in the Installer
 >  - booted to single user, ran 'fsck -fp /dev/rsd0a' to be sure
 >  - After 'mount -uw /' and editing /etc/rc.conf the box booted to
 >  multi user mode just fine
 >  - Because the Installer's list of device files is a bit outdated, you
 >  should run MAKEDEV all in /dev
 
 Thanks, first of all, for going to all the trouble of installing NetBSD 
 4rc5 on your machine using the traditional method.
 
 I started from scratch with my Powerbook 180.  After first removing the 
 SCSI-ethernet bridge, I reinstalled everything, including the 
 GENERICSBC kernel, and followed your instructions to the letter  When I 
 tried to boot into multi-user mode, however, I got the same message at 
 launch that I had before:
 
 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.
 
 Tom