>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.

Dan Killoran