re 1) In different ways with identical results:
a) I deleted the existing MacOS volumes and installed 2 scratch
partitions with FWB
b) I deleted the existing partitions and installed with (the hacked) HD
SC Setup 2 A/UX partitions

re 2) yep. One Usr & Root, one Swap

re 3) Correctly, I assume . . .:)

re 4) minishell 'disklabel' result was
  sd0a: Root 'NetBSD Root & Usr' at 1245 size 3868416
  sd0b: Swap 'NetBSD Swap' at 3869661 size 320000
  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
  sd1a: Root 'NetBSD Root & Usr' at 96 size 230600
  sd1b: Swap 'NetBSD Swap' at 230696 size 160000

minishell 'mount' result was
   /dev/sd0a mounted on /.

minishell 'ls' result was
     3 drwxr-xr-x    2        0     8192 Sep  7  2002 lost+found
  4288 drwxr-xr-x    2        0      512 Sep  7 14:30 proc
  8576 drwxr-xr-x    8        0     1536 Sep  7 14:47 etc
 12864 drwxr-xr-x    2        0      512 Sep  7 14:30 kern
 17152 drwxr-xr-x    3        0     4608 Sep  7 23:59 dev
 25728 drwxr-xr-x    2        0      512 May 15 19:05 altroot
 30016 drwxr-xr-x    2        0     1024 Sep  7 23:55 bin
 60032 drwxr-xr-x    2        0      512 May 15 19:05 home
 64320 drwxr-xr-x    2        0      512 May 15 19:05 mnt
 68608 drwxr-xr-x    2        0      512 Sep  7 14:47 root
 72896 drwxr-xr-x    2        0     1536 Sep  7 14:30 sbin
 77184 drwxr-xr-x    2        0      512 May 15 19:05 stand
 81472 drwxrwxrwt    2        0      512 May 15 19:05 tmp
 85760 drwxr-xr-x    8        0      512 Sep  7 23:59 usr
     4 -rw-r--r--    2        0      794 May 15 22:06 .cshrc
     5 -rw-r--r--    2        0      230 May 15 22:06 .profile
     6 -rwxr-xr-x    1        0  1450092 May 16 07:33 netbsd
     7 -rw-r--r--    1        0     1079 Jul 16 23:43 +CONTENTS
     8 -rw-r--r--    1        0       35 Jul 16 23:43 +COMMENT
     9 -rw-r--r--    1        0      106 Jul 16 23:43 +DESC
    10 -r--r--r--    1        0     3147 Jan  9  1932 +MTREE_DIRS
Error on SCSIRead(), # 5  
248704 drwxr-xr-x    2        0      512 Sep  8 00:11 syquest

(Note: Error on SCSIRead(), # 5  did not appear another time, when I did
another 'ls'. Moreover, there are 2 first lines, which I couldn't catch,
because they did not fit the screen)

Meanwhile I can boot to the hd. The new Booter had, by default the
option serial console checked. When I disabled that, I could start in
NetBSD. But something seems definitely broken in sd0: I can not install
man.tgz with the installer and also not from the Minishell (zinstall).
Other sets can be installed.

When I did fsck there were several errors corrected, but after
installing new sets, the same error reappeared.

Hope, this is useful info. to guide me a bit further. 

Thanks a lot again & best regards, Ulrich



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>Von: SUNAGAWA Keiki <kei_sun@ba2.so-net.ne.jp>
>An: port-mac68k@netbsd.org
>Betreff: Re: Help needed! 
>Datum: Die, 8. Sep 1998 18:25 Uhr
>

>Ulrich> "Ulrich Hausmann"
>Ulrich> <ulrich.hausmann@rhein-neckar.netsurf.de> wrote:
>
>Ulrich> SUNAGAWA,
>
>Ulrich> thanks a lot for all that advices, but actually,
>Ulrich> that does not seem to be my problem with the hd:
>
>Oh, I missed that.  Sorry.
>
>Ulrich> I can *NOT* get the installer to install anything
>Ulrich> correctly or to build devices. When I let the
>Ulrich> installer install base.tgz, etc.tgz, kern.tgz, it
>Ulrich> stops after a while (after finishing extracting the
>Ulrich> first package, I think) and says:
>
>>> 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
>
>Hmm...  It seems that Installer fails to find root
>partition in your drive.
>
>1. How did you set up your NetBSD or A/UX partitions?  Some
>formatting software seems to make Installer confuse.
>
>2. Did you change the type of partitions to NetBSD and make
>file systems in them with Mkfs?
>
>3. How did you answer the question of asking drives which
>contains your root partition in the first dialog of
>Installer?  If you tell wrong drive to it, installation will
>fail.
>
>4. If you're sure that the partition's are ok, select Mini
>Shell in Installer's menu and try "disklabel" and "mount"
>command in it and let us the result?  Type help to get help
>of the Mini Shell.
>
>Ulrich> Strangely, when I did the first installation on the
>Ulrich> hd I also got this error, but I could start NetBSD
>Ulrich> (though getting an alarm 'warning: no /dev/console ')
>Ulrich> but I never got a prompt (#).
>
>The error sayss that you didn't make device files during the
>installation.
>
>Ulrich> After a second attempt to install, I only get the
>Ulrich> Installer error, but trying to boot, I crash still
>Ulrich> in MacOS! This time, I let NetBSD Installer build
>Ulrich> first the devices, *BEFORE* I installed anything.
>Ulrich> Nevertheless, I'm getting the same error and can not
>Ulrich> boot (???).
>
>Read what you see in the screen carefully, note down them
>and what you do so others can reproduce your problem.  It's
>needed further help.  We can't see what you doing:-)
>
>--
>SUNAGAWA Keiki <kei_sun@ba2.so-net.ne.jp>
>Happy Hacking!
>