Konrad Schnetzler wrote:
> I have spent two long nights for installing first time MacBSD onto my
> Quadra 840av.
> First, i have tried the version 1.4.
> With Mkfs_1.45 I created a Swap and a RootAndUsr Partition an formatted
> the
> Root partition with an UFS 4.3 filesystem.
> With the Installation Utility Ver. 1.1g I have installed base.tgz,
> etc.tgz and kern.tgz.
> I try to boot with the Booter Ver. 1.11.3.
> But during the boot process i get allways the following errors:
> 
> 
> .....
> root file system type : ext2fs
> warning: lookup /dev/console: error 20
> exec /sbin/init: error 20
> exec /sbin/oinit: error 20
> exec /sbin/init.bak: error 20
> init: not found
> panic: no init
> Stopped in init at    _Debugger+0x6:   unlk   a6
> db>
> 
> 
> I think, that there ist a correct ufs root filesystem on the disk, but
> the
> binary installed kernel from kern.tgz needs an ext2fs because it is
> hard coded in this distribution of kern.tgz. Right ?

nope.  the kernel should be able to boot off of any supported filesystem.
sounds like somethink in your install is screwed up in a rather nasty way.
 
> 
> When I try the same with the binary distribution of MacBSD 1.3.3
> the kernel mounts the root filesystem correct with the message:
> 
> .....
> root file system type: ffs
> ....
> 
> and boots up. Hurray !!!

strange.

> Is there somewhere a 1.4 binary Kernel that boots up from a ffs/ufs
> root filesystem ??

they boot just fine for me.  what exactly did you do in Mkfs to make the
partitions?

-colin