On Mon, Feb 18, 2002 at 06:22:33PM +1100, nigel@ind.tansu.com.au wrote:

 > > Maybe this. A kernel isn't booted up from a partition which is made with 
 > > a recent sysinst.  It seems same in the case of SCSI disk.
 > 
 > 	Possible. It could be that OS X's 'newfs -O' doesn't in fact
 > create an old-style filesystem

X's UFS/FFS is slightly different from BSD's -- If you want to test
reading NetBSD file systems, you have to use the NetBSD "newfs" to
create the file system in the first place.

 > * With libsa/ufs.c, it fails a few 4K reads into parsing the fs stuff.
 > 
 > * With the Booter's old ufs_read.c, it locates the directory's inode,
 >   locates the kernel, and gets a few K into reading it in before it
 >   reads past the end of the partition.

These problems are probably related to using X's "newfs".

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        -- Jason R. Thorpe <thorpej@wasabisystems.com>