Hello everyone,

I've got a problem installing NetBSD/mvme68k 1.6.2 onto a MVME167-31A.

I followed the installation procedure in
ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/NetBSD-1.6.2/mvme68k/INSTALL.html
which very nicely explains the whole process. I'm trying to install via 
NFS/ftp. I'm already past the point of partitioning the hard drive. This 
is what the kernel had to say about the hard drive:

sd0 at scsibus0 target 3 lun 0: <DEC, RZ57     (C) DEC, 5000> SCSI1 
0/direct fixed
sd0: 954 MB, 1928 cyl, 15 head, 67 sec, 512 bytes/sect x 1954050 sectors

When the install script starts to prepare the drive for installation, 
the command

/usr/mdec/installboot /mnt/.bootsd /usr/mdec/bootxx /dev/rsd0a

crashes with 'bad magic number'. After that, the installation dies with 
a signal 11 and a core dump putting me back to the command prompt.

Any idea why this is?

However, I made this observation: after netbooting the miniroot, edlabel 
shows the following geometry of the disk which dffers from the 
information given by the kernel:

edlabel> p
         type_num: 4
         sub_type: 0
        type_name: RZ57     (C) DE
        pack_name: fictitious
     bytes/sector: 512
    sectors/track: 67
  tracks/cylinder: 15
        cylinders: 1928
sectors/cylinder: 1005
partition      start         (c/t/s)      nblks         (c/t/s)  type

  a (root)          0       (0/00/00)          0       (0/00/00)  unused
  b (swap)          0       (0/00/00)          0       (0/00/00)  unused
  c (disk)          0       (0/00/00)    1954050    (1944/04/62)* unused
edlabel>

This is the partition table after the installation crashes. My 
partitioning vanishes after the crash.

Any ideas/pointers would be greatly appreciated as there is no answer to 
this yet on the net.

TIA & Regards
Armin Gnosa