I had the same symptom occur on a MacIIci that I was attempting to install on.
Mine too was locking up at the "so I sez to him..." part.
I tracked down the trouble to what appeared to be a faulty SCSI controller on
the board.

In my case, the Mac system ran fine.  Everything was cool...until I noticed that
If I plugged in both my Zip Drive and my SyQuest drives in, only the Zip was
recognized.  Nobody on the SCSI Chain was sharing an ID...so it was wierd.

Turned out that, I could set the Zip to ID 5 and the SyQuest to ID 3 (the
Internal HD stayed at ID 1) and every time the Zip would show up on ID 6, and
the SyQuest didn't at all.  I finally removed the Zip alltogether, hooked up the
SyQuest on ID 2, and rebooted.  Lo and behold, the SyQuest mounted to the Mac
Desktop, but was on ID 6.

So, basically, the board was only allowing devices to use IDs 1 and 6.

I replaced the MBoard on the IIci (major expense there, $10, thank you eBay )
and now I have the SyQuest showing up on the same ID it's set to.  No more just
1 and 6.

I've yet to try reinstalling the NetBSD since I just put the new board in this
week.  But the new board did solve the issues on the Mac side...so hopefully it
will do the same on the NetBSD side as well.

Good Luck.

-AstroZomby-


On 10/12/00 at 9:18 AM, Carlson.Clarence@mayo.edu (Carlson, Clarence R., D.O.)
wrote:

> Greetings:
> I hope someone can steer me in the right direction, the SCSI voodoo stuff is
> confusing.
> I have two mac 575's with upgraded full 040 chips. In the performa I
> installed 1.4.2 without a hitch. But the drive is small (250 meg) so I
> thought I would go ahead and install on my other 575 (an LC),but using the
> external 1 gig SCSI HD. (a refurbed Microp.) When I first got the drive
> hooked up I used it as a single large mac partition and everything worked
> fine. 
> So I  partitioned for NetBSD use, left a little for MacOS, and did a full
> install. No problems. But during boot it would get to, "so I sez to him..."
> and hang. And now I find that I cannot either restart or reboot the MacOS
> from the menu. It hangs and I have to reboot from the keyboard. If I unplug
> the HD, it reboots and shutsdown OK. I have restored the drive to one mac
> partition, upgraded my drivers (Apple Drive setup 1.7.2) but no joy.
> I realise that there aren't always easy answers for SCSI problems, but
> anyone have a general idea of where I should go with this?  Thanks.
> 
>  --
> "I'd rather be a failure at something I enjoy, than be a success at
> something I hate."
>  
> -George Burns
> Clarence R Carlson DO
> Philosopher & Curmudgeon
>