> 
> On Wed, 27 Nov 1996, Paul Callaghan wrote:
> 
> > wanted to proceed, it spits out the zip disk. I put it back in quickly, and
> > the system started up OK until it got to the sd1a, I think. It would not
> > recognise the zip disk as a valid drive (ficticious geometry). I'm still a
> > learner, how do you trap the output of the boot to file?. Thanks for any
> > help.
> 
> i had this problem, it stopped ejecting the disk when, after reading 
> something somewhere, i re-partitioned for A/UX 2.0X insted of 3.0X

I too have the ejection problem with booting into NetBSD. It is a function
of iomega's driver. Basicaly Apple's rules are that removable media (like
zip cartridges) should be ejected on reboot. If you format the drive with
hard disk drivers (which don't eject), you won't get the ejection problem.

I don't think the ficticious geometry message is the problem. I get it
too. As long as the conputer recognizes the full size of the drive
(something like 96 cyl, 32 tracks/cyl, and 64 sectors/track), you'll
be fine.

When you get into the debugger, type "t" to do a stack trace, and see where
the error is arising.

Take care,

Bill