On 11 Jun 1999, Ken Lynde wrote:

> I am trying to install NetBSD 1.4 on a Quadra 650 with 24M RAM.  
> 
> I have a 700M disk set up with 3 partitions, 100M MacOS, 24M swap, the rest root & usr.
> 
> The install goes OK, no errors.  When I try to boot it seems to work, there are no error messages that I can see but right after:
>      root file system type: ffs
> 
> I get the lines:
>      [date] init: /bin/sh on /etc/rc terminated abnormally going to single user mode
>      Enter pathname of shell or RETURN for sh:
> 
> If I hit return (or enter the path /bin/sh) I get:
>      [date]: single user shell terminated, restarting
>      Enter pathname of shell or RETURN for sh:
> 
> Using the mini shell in the installer I can see that /bin/sh is there.
> 
> I have tried reinstalling the etc package, reformatting the root partition with no luck.

It must be that there's something wrong with /bin/sh. You reinstalled
the base set when you reformatted? Perhaps your base.tar.gz file is
corrupt. You would experience a similar problem if the kernel is too
old. You are using the GENERIC-1.4 from kern.tgz?