Subject: Re: Booting problems
To: Tom Hoffman <hoffmanthomas@hotmail.com>
From: Bob Nestor <rnestor@augustmail.com>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 05/03/2000 18:04:10
>I've hit a snag in my installation of NetBSD.  I'm using a PowerBook 180 and
>the most recent snapshots and generic kernel.  I used pdisk to create
>partitions and mkfs to make the filesystems.  The installer seemed to
>install the kernel, the base and etc snapshots fine.  When I run the mini
>shell from the installer it looks like things are where they are supposed to
>be.  The only drive is SCSID=0.  sd0a = root, sd0b = swap, sd0d = HFS_part.

If you didn't use mkfs to change the partition types to NetBSD ones they 
may not have the proper flags set to allow NetBSD to see them.  Many disk 
formatters don't set these flags, and I don't believe pdisk does either.  
At least it didn't seem to the last time I looked at the code.

-bob