Ok I got a good kernel onto my FreeBSD box and it installed fine. Bootup went 
smoothly and my nic is now recognized, YEE HAA, that gets me over my hurdle as 
OpenBSD/Mac68k didn't see my ethernet card.

The bad news is that I now get "unexpected phase change" errors everytime I 
make a disk access, editing my rc.conf was impossible.

I have a Quantum Fireball 2.0gb drive installed and OpenBSD/Mac68k had no 
problems running the generic kernel. I read the FAQ about my drive and didn't 
think I would be effected, but I did try to run the SBC kernel before writing 
this just in case.... The SBC kernel gives me "parity error" at each disk 
access.

I was able to mount the drive after doing fsck on /dev/sd0a but mounting 
induced more "unexpected phase change" errors. I have only FreeBSD and Mac 
machines here, no NetBSD info/man available. I did try the online man pages 
for netbsd 1.4 but 'apropos phase change' returned only the phase of the moon 
program.

Help?

Dave

Should I begin fetching 1.5_BETA2 ?

lists-mail <lists@pixelhammer.com> said:

> I only used stuffit to troubleshoot, I just wanted to confirm that the 
problem 
> wasn't something else. I did try to get them from work today on my G4 and 
they 
> came down and unpacked just fine. I not sure what is up but the problem 
seems 
> to be something in this Mac.
> 
> I'll just ssh into my server and ftp the kernel down directly into my 
Netatalk 
> share.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> DAve.
> 
> Frederick Bruckman <fb@enteract.com> said:
> 
> > On Thu, 16 Nov 2000, lists-mail wrote:
> > 
> > > Well.. ^%$*&(*!  I just finished with 1.4.2 but I'll happily try the 
beta 
> > > except... After I sent the message I discovered that the kernels in 
1.4.2 
> all 
> > > have CRC errors and do not work. I tried several things;
> > > 
> > > 1) ftp.netbsd.org and two random mirrors
> > > 2) using Mac fetch with type set to 1
> > > 3) Navigator as httpd and ftp download
> > > 4) MSIE as httpd and ftp download
> > > 5) uncompressing with stuffit first, no difference, stuffit fails the 
same 
> as 
> > > gunzip and reports same error.
> > 
> > I uploaded those files something like a year ago, and while this
> > isn't the first time someone's complained that they're corrupted,
> > this would be the first time that they actually were, if only.
> > ;-)
> > 
> > fredb@nbftp.isc.org-> pwd
> > /pub/NetBSD/NetBSD-1.4.2/mac68k/binary
> > fredb@nbftp.isc.org-> gunzip -tv kernel/netbsd.GENERIC*
> > kernel/netbsd.GENERIC.gz:        OK
> > kernel/netbsd.GENERICSBC.gz:     OK
> > fredb@nbftp.isc.org-> tar -tzf sets/kern.tgz
> > ./netbsd
> > 
> > I also took the trouble to verify that the sets can be unpacked with
> > certain Mac OS programs. (Stuffit didn't used to support the tar.gz
> > format, but the latest may, by now).
> > 
> > > Total I tried about 12 different combos to get a kernel last night.
> > > Is anyone else experiencing this error with the GENERIC kernel from 
1.4.2?
> > 
> > BTW, you don't _need_ to use Stuffit or gunzip on these files for any
> > reason -- the Booter can use the ".gz" files directly, and the
> > Installer's "install sets" option _requires_ the ".tgz" files just as
> > they are.
> > 
> > 
> > Frederick
> > 
> > 
> 
>