> 
> Hi,
> 
> I just aquired netbsd for the macintosh and it would start the boot but
> freeze mid-way.
> The version I have is 1.2.1. I have a Macintosh Quadra 800, 80MB of RAM,
> and 1MB of VRAM. The error message I get are 'kernel jump to zero' and
> sometimes 'address error'. It also says 'Stopped at _Debugger+0x6: unlk a6'.

I see two problems here. One, I don't think 1.2.1 supported the Q800.
You'll need to try something closer to -current. Second, you don't
really need 80 MB of RAM. 16 MB should be fine, so you can just mail me
that pesky extra 64 MB. ;-)

> I've partitioned my drive with APS Power Tools and have 3 AUX partitions -
> a root, a swap and a eshatology1. I mounted the partitions by typing 
> 'mount /dev/sd0a/root' for the root and 'mount /dev/sd0b/usr' for the
> usr partitions. That's the only thing that I could have done wrong. I'm
> unsure about how the installer(bsd) recognises which partition is the root, 
> since partitioning was done external to this program. There wasn't a
> particular address/pointer that was given during the partitioning/formatting
> process to identify each partition so I could use it when assigning the 
> root/usr.

The difference between partitions is kept in flags in the MacOS partition
table. If the name indicates it's a UNIX partition, one flag says it's
a root partition, and onther indicates it's a usr partition. APS Power
Tools set them for you.

Take care,

Bill