At 17:11 Uhr -0700 4.12.2007, Thomas Carlson wrote:
>> fsck_ffs -c2 /dev/rsd0a
>
>I reinstalled the everything and, after successfully booting into a
>fresh system, mounted /dev/sd0a and changing /etc/rc.conf
>appropriately.  I then ran fsck_ffs -c2 /dev/rsd0a.  Got the message...
>  BAD SUPER BLOCK:  CAN'T FIND SUPERBLOCK and a core dump.

Hum.

>> should be able to upgrade the filesystem to something that makes sense
>> to
>> NetBSD 4. Otherwise... you'd need to set up the disk from scratch with
>> sysinst.
>
>The sysinst installation method is not available to me as I don't have
>a CD-ROM drive for my old Powerbook 180 and have to install from files
>located on the Mac partition.  If the traditional method no longer
>works, it will leave a lot of older machines like mine in the dust.  So
>much for "Of course it runs NetBSD".

Well, you can always boot the installation kernel, have it set up the
NetBSD partition(s), then do the actual installation from the MacOS
installer.

	hauke

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