At 10.19 -0400 01-08-10, Tom Jernigan wrote:
>I have NetBSD 1.5 running happily on my 660AV in San Diego. None of 
>the the 1.5.1 beta's would work. I just got 1.5.1 up and running on 
>a Centris 650 here in Oak Ridge. As someone suggested a few weeks 
>ago, there may be a problem with the AV mac versions. I won't be 
>back to San Diego to try the 660AV for a couple of months.
>Tom
>>  > After failing to boot NetBSD 1.5.1 on my 660AV, I found the post
>>>  below describing my exact problem. Has anyone got a solution for
>>>  this, or should I just try to find another UN*X to install on my Mac?
>>
>>What do the partitions on your root disk look like?  Do you perhaps have
>>two disks with a root-like filesystem?  This looks like it might have
>>picked up the wrong disk or wrong partition.  You can try to verify the
>>disk by checking the SCSI IDs (and vendor/model info) in the boot messages.
>>
>>-allen
>>

Tom, I think that "someone" was right about the AV machines, the 
problem you saw persists in the 1.5.1 release.

Here's the scoop on 660AV and 1.5.1:
After a couple of days of experimenting (reinstalling, repartitioning 
etc), I tried to change the kernel on my 1.5.1 installation. I 
downloaded the 1.5 GENERIC kernel, installed and booted. No problems!

My conclusion: between 1.5 and 1.5.1 something was changed that broke 
BSD file system support on a 660AV. The most obvious demonstration of 
this is to boot the 1.5.1 installation kernel - it claims no BSD file 
systems are present on my disks (it does find the disks and 
partitions, just no file systems). When I boot the 1.5 installation 
kernel it finds all my BSD partitions without problems.

Questions:
- To get a working system, should I install all the 1.5 distribution 
sets or can I run the 1.5.1 distro with a 1.5 kernel?
- How do I officially report this problem so that someone can have a 
look at it?

Thanks,
/Stefan