On Thu, 26 Jun 1997, Aaron Gerega wrote:

> I've looked through the FAQs etc and I haven't been able to find a solution
> to my problem.  This is my first time trying to install any sort of unix
> variant on a Mac and I'm running into some difficulties.  I installed NetBSD
> 1.2.1 onto a IIci with 8 megs of RAM.  I have been unable to boot up the
> system however and I'm not sure exactly what's wrong.  I was thinking that
> perhaps I might have my SCSI root id set incorrectly so I've tried every
> setting from 0-9.  0 is the SCSI id of the HD containing my root partition. 
> That doesn't work though since I get some sort of bad magic number error. 

Copy down the exact error, though I think I know what's happened.  It
sounds like your NetBSD partition has gotten creamed.  I don't know why. 
Try running mkfs again and then the installer again and see if that works. 
Another possibility would be a bad kernel, though I think this gives a
kernel in unknown format error or something like that. 


David

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