Roger Brown wrote:
> I am trying to move to 1.4.1 from 1.3.3, but each kernel I try always fails
> on
> 
> boot device: sd1
> root on sd1a dumps on sd1b
> PRAM: 0x37d769df, macos_boottime 0x37d769c6
> root file system type: ext2fs
> bad directory entry: rec_len % 4 != 0
> offset=0, inode=891834945, rec_len=8233, nmae_len=8224
> panic: ext2fs_dirbadentry
> Stopped in swapper as _Debugger+0x6:  unlk a6
> db>
> 
> This looks like the boot trying to mount the root file system but in thinks
> it is an 'ext2fs' format when the partition is formatted as 'ffs' as
> reported by 1.3.3
> 
> How do I tell the booter to mount sd1a as 'ffs' and not 'ext2fs'

i believe there is a checkbox in the booter where you can have it ask you
for the root partition.  istr that one of the questions it asks you is
filesystem type.
 
> Why is it making this choice anyway?

have you ever installed linux on this thing?  i really don't know why it's
doing this.  i think one other person has seen something similar.  i'm
running 1.4 on my machine at home, and it didn't have this problem  what
formatter did you use to create those partitions?  did you use the mkfs
utility to create the filesystems?

later.

colin