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.....

Regards

Roger
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>From: Colin Wood <cwood@ichips.intel.com>
>To: rogerhb@xtra.co.nz (Roger Brown)
>Cc: port-mac68k@netbsd.org
>Subject: Re: boot 1.4.1 failure
>Date: Thu, Sep 9, 1999, 8:33 am
>

>Roger Brown wrote:
>> I am trying to move to 1.4.1 from 1.3.3, but each kernel I try always fails
>> on
>> 
>> boot device: sd1
>> root on sd1a dumps on sd1b
>> PRAM: 0x37d769df, macos_boottime 0x37d769c6
>> root file system type: ext2fs
>> bad directory entry: rec_len % 4 != 0
>> offset=0, inode=891834945, rec_len=8233, nmae_len=8224
>> panic: ext2fs_dirbadentry
>> Stopped in swapper as _Debugger+0x6:  unlk a6
>> db>
>> 
>> This looks like the boot trying to mount the root file system but in thinks
>> it is an 'ext2fs' format when the partition is formatted as 'ffs' as
>> reported by 1.3.3
>> 
>> How do I tell the booter to mount sd1a as 'ffs' and not 'ext2fs'
>
>i believe there is a checkbox in the booter where you can have it ask you
>for the root partition.  istr that one of the questions it asks you is
>filesystem type.
> 
>> Why is it making this choice anyway?
>
>have you ever installed linux on this thing?  i really don't know why it's
>doing this.  i think one other person has seen something similar.  i'm
>running 1.4 on my machine at home, and it didn't have this problem  what
>formatter did you use to create those partitions?  did you use the mkfs
>utility to create the filesystems?
>
>later.
>
>colin
>