Re: Installation Error For Mac68k NetBSD on SE/30

[John Klos <john%klos.com@localhost>]

Hello,

> Hi, I'm trying to install NetBSD on my SE/30. I'm running it with
> Rominator II, 128MB of RAM, and a BlueSCSI. The BlueSCSI has a single
> "physical" 6GB disc on it at SCSI #0, which has the following
> partitions:
> - Mac Driver partition
> - Macintosh HD (HFS, around 2GB)
> - Internal Storage (HFS, around 2GB)
> - NetBSD Usr/Sys (Formatted with mkfs, a little under 2GB)
> - NetBSD Swap (Formatted with mkfs, 32MB)

Looks good so far, except of course you don't need to format swap.

> I followed the instructions on the website, but I'm getting this error
> when running installation program:
> Error on SCSIRead(), # 5
> failed mountfs(), error 22
> Error mounting root.
> mount root. : Undefined error: 0
>
> This makes me think there's something wrong with my filesystem, but
> formatting the user/sys and swap filesystems seemed to work correctly.
> Any idea what this could mean? Thanks in advance!

There's been talk about changing the docs for a while because the older 
MacOS tools aren't all that robust.

The better way to do an installation these days is to download an install 
kernel (mac68k/installation/instkernel), boot that with Booter, then use 
sysinst to format your partitions and install NetBSD.

I really should do a from-scratch run throuh and update the docs some time 
soon...

John