First of all this message should go to port-mac68k, not port-macppc,
because the Quadra uses a Motorola 68040 CPU.  More notes below.

At 7:44 AM -0700 9/21/99, Fabrizio Catalano wrote:
>I have spent some hours for installing NetBSD 1.4.1 on my Quadra 650
>but at first boot I get always the following errors:
>
>...
>boot device: sd1
>root on sd1a dumps on sd1b
>PRAM: 0x337e7ac33, macos_boottime: 0x37e7ac2a.
>root file system type : ext2fs
                         ^^^^^^
This is the problem.  There was just a thread discussing it a day or two
ago.  So people should be ready to help, I hope.

>warning: lookup /dev/console: error 20
>exec /sbin/init: error 20
>exec /sbin/oinit: error 20
>exec /sbin/init.bak: error 20
>init: not found
>panic: no init
>Stopped in swapper at    _Debugger+0x6:   unlk   a6
>db>
>
>On the same machine I have another disc (300MB) with NetBSD 1.3.2 up
>and running.
>
>Now I should like to use a larger (1GB) disc previously used to try
>the Debian  Linux for 68k.

Apparently this Linux distribution sets something in the partition table
which we don't reset.  Everyone who has hit this problem so far has solved
it by just reformatting the disk and starting over.  Consequently we don't
know what is causing it.

If you could do something to dump the detailed partition map so we can find
the exact problem, then 1) you don't have to backup your MacOS partition
(though you should on general principles), and 2) we can fix this problem
for everyone.

Correct me if I'm wrong everyone, but I think if you go into Apple HD SC
Setup program in the partition display and tell it to show you the details
of the partition map that might do it.  You will need to do a screen dump
to get the info in a format you can send to anyone I think.

Does anyone have a partition map dumper program they can send to this guy
as an alternative?

>I have used Apple HD SC setup to modify partitions as follow:
>root 32MB
>swap 40MB
>usr 758MB
>HFS 200MB
>
>Then with Mkfs_1.45 I have changed the name of partitions partitions
>and formatted them without errors.
>
>Also the installation of sets was done without errors.
>
>I have done two times all the procedure with the same result.
>
>Maybe is necessary to format the entire disc? I  have not done these
>because I have not a backup of my Macintosh files on the 200MB
>partition.
>
>Please help me!

Good luck.

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