Subject: Re: IIcx fails at boot - Error 79
To: Matthew Theobalds <mtheobalds@mac.com>
From: Dave Huang <khym@bga.com>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 12/26/2000 16:25:49
On Tue, 26 Dec 2000, Matthew Theobalds wrote:
> Thanks for the hasty response. However, this occurs after the booter
> application has killed all processes and begun the boot. It recognises my
> Cards, ADB, Ethernet etc. Only when it tries to mount the filesystem it gets
> the error. I assume therefore that I am out of the Mac OS at that point.

Error 79 in NetBSD is EFTYPE "Inappropriate file type or format."  Does
NetBSD recognize your hard drive (probably sd0)? And are the boot
options (in the MacOS booter program) set correctly? Root SCSI ID, for
example...