Frederick,

meanwhile I tried a re-install and now, I can not boot any longer at
all: The cursor, still in MacOS freezes on then "Closing logfile" msg.
The errors in the installer were the same, but actually I used another
booter (1.11.3). 

Anyway, where I should have typed in the command line you advised me to
do? I never got a # line, even when I was able to start NetBSD (?).

Actually, I didn't continue with the Syquest. I thought, but now I'm
afraid I was wrong, I could start with the hd.

Thanks again, 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: Help needed!
>Datum: Die, 8. Sep 1998 8:04 Uhr
>

>On Mon, 7 Sep 1998, Ulrich Hausmann wrote:
>
>> After all that experiencing with NetBSD installation on a Syquest, I
>> finally dared to pass over to the hd. It's a 4 GB Dec RZ29B (=a Dec
>> labeled Seagate Barracuda).
>> 
>> I installed the filesystem with Mkfs_1.45 and installed with the
>> NetBSD/Installer the essential files (etc.tgz, kern.tgz, base.tgz). Now,
>> when the installer should build devices, I'm getting this error msg:
>> 
>> >sd0 at scsi ID 0.
>> >sd1 at scsi ID 1.
>> >Partition read, SCSIID = 0
>> >Mounting partition 'A' as /
>> >sd0a: Root 'A/UX Root' at 1245 size 3800000
>> >sd0b: Swap 'NetBSD Swap' at 3801245 size 388416
>> >sd0d: Other (FWB DRIVER COMPONENTS) 'FWB Driver Components' at 101 size 1024
>> >sd0e: HFS_PART 'MacOS' at 4189661 size 2094208
>> >sd0f: HFS_PART 'MacOS' at 6283869 size 2096210
>> >sd0g: Other (APPLE_FREE) 'Extra' at 8380079 size 1
>> >Error on SCSIRead(), # 5
>> >Error on SCSIWrite(), # 5
>> >Error on SCSIRead(), # 5
>> >Error on SCSIRead(), # 5
>> >Error on SCSIWrite(), # 5
>> >Error on SCSIRead(), # 5
>> >pos = 0, i = 121, fs = /
>> >alloccgblk: can't find blk in cyl
>> 
>> What's that? I'm able to boot in NetBSD, but then I get no prompt, but
>> the error msg:
>> 
>> >warning: no /dev/console 
>
>Please post the output of the following commmand, while booted from the
>other drive:
>
>dd if=/dev/rsd0c skip=1 count=16 conv=notrunc | strings --bytes=2 >map
>
>The 'PM's deliniate the start of the partition maps. My hypothesis, as yet
>unproven, is that more than eight of these leads to general failures.
>
>Alternatively, there may a different problem altogethor with either Mkfs
>or the Installer. Try this, also while booted into single-user from the
>other drive.
>
># newfs -O /dev/rsd0a
># mount /dev/sd0a /mnt
># umount /mnt
># fsck /dev/rsd0a
>
>and then try  again to make devices, fstab, etc. using the Installer.
>
>Um... you didn't actually say that you had gotten the SyQuest to work.
>Does it? Did you have to do anything different?
>
>