Robert, Michael, Bob,

Indeed, a previous (bad) install of Debian Linux was on the drive. I went
back in with APS Power Tools and reformatted the drive (The wonders on
floppy disk swapping...). This time the installer garbed during the install
of the base packages: Something to do with not being able to write to a
particular block on the /usr (/dev/sd0g) partition. It's repeatable, so I
can get the particulars.

Marius
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Marius Schamschula, optical physicist, mac, and network coordinator

The Center for Applied Optical Sciences:  http://www.caos.aamu.edu/
          Department of Physics, Alabama A & M University


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>From: "Roger Brown" <rogerhb@xtra.co.nz>
>To: Marius Schamschula <marius@caos.aamu.edu>
>Subject: Re: kernel panic
>Date: Fri, Sep 10, 1999, 4:18 PM
>

> If it's any help, I had *exactly* this same problem on my MacIIcx four days
> ago, it ran 1.3.3 fine but booting 1.4.1 thought that the HD was ext2fd, it
> turns out that as I had previously loaded linux and this must have left some
> traces/residue behind in the partition or driver sections.
>
> I solved the problem using a low-level format with Apple HD Setup, then
> partition, then MKFS 45,
> then installation.
>
> Regards
>
> Roger
> ----------
>>From: "Michael G. Schabert" <mikeride@prez.org>
>>To: "Marius Schamschula" <marius@caos.aamu.edu>
>>Cc: port-mac68k@netbsd.org
>>Subject: Re: kernel panic
>>Date: Sat, Sep 11, 1999, 8:48 am
>>
>
>>>Hi all,
>>>
>>>I'm trying to install the 68k port onto an LC II (6MB RAM/1.2GB Apple ROM
>>>HD).
>>>
>>>After smooth partitioning, and formating, I loaded the basic packages and a
>>>few odds and ends.
>>>
>>>When I tried to boot into NetBSD, the process hung with the following msg:
>>>
>>>panic: extfs_dirbadentry
>>>Stopped in init at _Debugger + Ox6: unlk a6
>>
>>
>>What did you use for partitioning and formatting? What kind of partitions
>>did you tell that progrm to use? Did you use MKFS to convert them to NetBSD
>>slices? This may be related to very recent problems that we've been seeing
>>wrt mkfs and (former) EXT2fs partitions. Had that Apple ROM HD ever been
>>used with Linux?
>>
>>Mike
>>Bikers don't *DO* taglines.