Colin Wood  (cwood@ichips.intel.com) wrote:

>Roger Brown wrote:
>> Thanks for that,
>> 
>> I had previously installed linux-m68k a long time ago, but zapped it because
>> it did not recognize my ethernet card and have since been using NetBSD
>> 1.3.3.
>> 
>> I had been just zapping the partition with mkfs 45 but obviously that is not
>> enough.
>> 
>> I did a low-level format with Apple HD Setup, repartitioned, mkfs, NetBSD
>> installer, and now it appears to work as it's supposed to.....
>
>yeah, it must be setting some kind of bit in the partition table that it
>shouldn't or something like that.  you might want to talk to bob nestor
>about it as he might have some clue as to what is going on with mkfs (or
>at least he might know what bit is/isn't getting set).

Nah, I'm pretty sure he doesn't know diddly. ;-)

I've got a Debian 2.02r3 installation kit here someplace but never 
figured out how to install the silly thing.  I'll give it another try 
this weekend and see if I can find out what they're doing that's causing 
us problems -- unless someone already has a disk that still shows this 
problem.   If so please let me know and I'll put together a test program 
to dump the Partition Table and partition block that's probably causing 
the difficulty.  With that I think I can come up with a fix to Mkfs.

-bob