Frederick Bruckman  (fb@enteract.com) wrote:

>On Wed, 8 Dec 1999, Ben Fuller wrote:
>
>> I get this msg when booting then its drops me into this db> prompt.
>> 
>> root device : sd0a
>> dump device : sd0b
>> File system (default generic): ext2fs
>                                 ^^^^^^
>> root on sd0a dumps sd0b
>> PRAM: 0x384da98a2
>> bad directory entry: directory entry across blocks
>> offset=0, inode=2806132991, ren_len=30792, name_len=4873
>> panic: etx2fs dirbadentry
>> stopped in swapper at   _Debugger+0x6         un1k       a6
>> db>
>
>This has come up before. I believe the older versions of Mkfs didn't
>wipe all of the old linux cruft out of the new file system. There was
>a simple fix for this involving "dd". Maybe someone on the list will
>recall the details. If not, you might try mining the mailing list
>archives <http://mail-index.netbsd.org/mlist/port-mac68k/>.

There's also an updated version of Mkfs 1.47 that solves this problem.  
Version 1.46 solves it too, but introduces some other problems so either 
run 1.47 and install after that or run 1.46 followed by 1.45 and then 
install.

-bob