I had a small "crash" on my PowerMacintosh 6500/300.  It ceased getting 
through the fsck and ceased booting. I thought I could simply upgrade, but 
probably screwed it up worse. The installation was on the ATA internal hard 
disk. This machine came with an ATA hard disk, though the CD and ZIP were 
SCSI.  Once I got the message that /etc/fstab couldn't be found I abandoned 
the idea that I could simply upgrade the existing installation.

Then I decided that, since I already had a 9GB external SCSI attached, I 
would install the current version of NetBSD on that and see if I could 
recover the data from my previous installation later.

I was able to install without a problem using an ftp install, but I can't 
seem to boot. I've tried "boot scsi/sd@0:0" and ext-scsi/sd@0:0. And a few 
others. I do get endless resetting SCSI bus messages and sometimes the one 
about the "catch", but I don't get anywhere near booting. Are there any I'm 
missing? Should I simply write off my previous NetBSD installation.


Josh Kuperman
josh@ssimr.com