Daniel R. Killoran,Ph.D. wrote:
> >There seems to be nothing out of the ordinary with the installer
> >output you posted separately. I hate to say this, but one thing that's
> >worked in the past is to do a low-level format and then lay all the
> >partitions down in one shot. I thought all the disklabel problems were
> >fixed in 1.4, but the Mac partition scheme is so free-form, it is not
> >inconceivable that you could have somehow constructed a partition
> >table which confuses the fake disklabel routines. Re-formatting is
> >worth a shot.
> 
> You aren't going to believe this, but I
> 
> 1) Low-level reformatted the drive, checking & mapping out bad blocks
> 2) Reformatted it again, using Apple's driver this time, instead of APS 4.1
> 3) Used Apple's Setup to create the partitions
> 4) Used Mkfs to set the partition types, and create file systems on them
> 5) Reinstalled the kernel and base
> 
> and the results are EXACTLY the same! I am beginning to think that the
> kernel is hosed. I will get a new copy.

i don't think your kernel is hosed.  someone else has seen this exact same
problem before.  i'm not quite sure why it is happening, but basically the
scsi code is sending a command to your disk (in this case, it's telling it
to not allow you to eject removable media ;-) and the disk is never
responding, or at least if it does respond, we miss it.  either way, we
never wake up, and that's why the machine hangs....

what kind of machine is this again?  what kind of hard drive?

later.

colin