Subject: Drive Problems (Was Re: your mail)
To: Christopher R. Bowman <crb@Glue.umd.edu>
From: tcjam <tcjam@voicenet.com>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 09/17/1997 15:09:04
Seconded!  I recently reformated my 2gig quantum with three HFS
partitions, NetBSD root&usr/NetBSD swap and had the installer crap out in
the same way. I managed to get past it by rearranging the partition map I
think but I'd like to see this resolved.

tcjam

On Wed, 17 Sep 1997, Christopher R. Bowman wrote:

> Since someone else on this list is talking about problems with disk drives
> I thought I would add my own experience.  I recently bought a 2gig Seagate
> Medalist Ultra SCSI (narrow) drive that I installed in my 660av, I
> partitioned it into 3 mac drives and a netbsd and swap partiton, the
> macside newfs worked fine, but the installer crashed into macsbugs
> every time it started up. This is not a case of operator error, I have
> done lots of installs.  The disk is working fine under MacOS, and
> I took this drive and mounted it from within netbsd (I used another disk
> on the same machine as root, and mounted this disk as /u1) and it
> works fine there, but when I coppied over all of my other root disk
> onto the Seagate  and tried to boot it, the booter refused.  I haven't
> been able to play with this for a while, and when I get a chance I will
> step through the installer in a debugger to see what is going on, but I
> thought I would give the list a heads up, and see if anyone has any ideas.
> 
> ---------
> Christopher R. Bowman
> crb@Glue.umd.edu
> My home page 
> 
> 

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