Hi

Siegmund Fuhringer <sifu <at> 0xx0.net> writes:

> 
> hi!
> 
> i've installed netbsd on my powerbook :)
> but i'm unable to boot it :(
> 
> after entering "boot hd:13,\ofwboot.xcf hd:12/netbsd" the kernel boots,
> but is apparently using the wrong partition as root filesystem:
> 
> <snip from the output>
> boot device: wd0
> root on wd0a dumps on wd0b
> root filesystem type: ext2fs
> exec /sbin/init: error 20
> .
> .
> .
> panic

I had exactly the same problem. The partition seems to have artefacts from a
former partition. After I did dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/wd0a the partition was
recognised correctly and the booting worked fine.

Sven