Frederick,

when I booted in single user mode, I didn't get that error msg. But
looking in /dev/, obviously, sd1a is still missing. Now, the files there
(in /dev/) are that kinds of links (aliases or so?) to real pyhsical
partitions? And if so, isn't it possible to rebuild one "by hand"?
Especially since there are, as I saw two program files (or scripts?)
MAKEDEV and MAKEDEV.local.

Actually, in my understanding, I can not add a new user because I can
not get in read/write mode, correct? And the reason is, that those
/dev/sd1a does not exist . . . Btw, I didn't have any crash, neither in
single mode nor in multiple user mode.

Here are the other results of 'disklabel sd1' (note it's a Syquest 200
at id 1):

| # /dev/rsd1c
| type: SCSI
| disk: SCSI Disk
| label: ficticious
| flags:
| bytes/sector: 512
| sectors/track: 86
| tracks/cylinder: 2
| sectors/cylinder: 172
|=DDcylinders: 2260
| total sectors: 390696
| rpm: 3600
| interleave: 1
| trackscrew: 0
| cylinderscrew: 0
|=DDheadswitch: 0              # milliseconds
| track-to-track seek: 0     # milliseconds
|=DDdrivedata: 0
|
| 1 partitions:
| #      size     offset   fstype   [fsize  bsize    cpg]
|   a:  1229536     101      4.2BSD         0      0     0   # (Cyl.
0-2271*)
| disklabel: boot block size 0
| disklabel: super block size 0
| disklabel: warning, unused partition c: size 390696 offset 0

Hope this will give a better hint (not to me, so far :)  ).

A question re the partitioning and preparation of a hd on the Macside:
That limit of 8 partitions is meant, when formatting a Mac hd. Would
there count in also all partitions created by Mkfs?

I do not understand, whether or not the Ide driver is an own partition
or simply written on to "driver partition" created by FWB or HD SC
Setup. It's a bit a pity, FWB is so odd for NetBSD, since OTOH the full
version is really nice for the Mac side (good recover tools and many
options to optimize the format - differently from Silverlining and HD SC
Setup). In any case, could I completely renounce at MacOS formatting,
when I'd boot from a basic OS on an external drive. That would simplify
things a lot, wouldn't it?

Thanks again & best regards, Ulrich

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>Von: Frederick Bruckman <fb@enteract.com>
>An: Ulrich Hausmann <ulrich.hausmann@rhein-neckar.netsurf.de>
>Cc: port-mac68k@netbsd.org
>Betreff: Re: Installation problem
>Datum: Sam, 5. Sep 1998 4:20 Uhr
>

>On Sat, 5 Sep 1998, Ulrich Hausmann wrote:
>
>> Bill,
>>
>> I tried as you suggested ('fsck_ffs -b 32 /dev/rsd1a'), but I got this:
>>
>> | Alternate super block location: 32
>> | /dev/sd1a (No such file in directory)Can't stat /dev/sd1a
>>
>> When I do 'disklabel sd1' I get, among other stuff:
>>
>> | disklabel: boot block size 0
>> | disklabel: super block size 0
>> | disklabel: warning, unused partition c: size 390696 offset 0
>
>The "other stuff" might be interesting. Do you have a swap partition?
>
>> Should I re-install all? Or may be something? Then, the installer
>> normally created the devices. Tomorrow, I'll try to boot another time in
>> single user mode, seeing if the error is repeated. Or does that have no
>> influence?
>
>Well, crashing while in mult-user mode does tend to damage the filesystem,
>compounding the problem. I gather that this is a new install. If there's
>no data to save, IMHO, starting from scratch is definitely called for.
>
>
>