On Fri, 13 Apr 2001, Gennaro Esposito wrote:

> Greetings...
> I know, this is my 3rd (or 4th, don't remember!) question always 'bout
> the same problem! But I'm really in serious trouble!
> I'm trying to install NetBSD over a DEC 5000/200...I've tried with 1.5
> and only errors occured! Then, I'm trying with new 1.5.1_BETA but with
> trouble again (yes, just a little different but...anyway!)
> I'm installing it via TFTP/NFS and, after the sysconf step, it starts to
> boot but (follow a "snapshot" of the messages on the console)
>
> <snip>
> Beginning Old-Style SCSI......
> .
> .
> rz0 at asc0 drive 0 slave 0 DEC RZ56    DEC rev 0300 (SCSI-1)
> .
> .
> boot device: rz0
> root on rz0a dumps on rz0b
> root file system type: ffs
> /: bad dir ino 10752 at offset 0: mangled entry
> panic: bad dir
> Begin traceback...
> SP 0x0: not in kernel
> _DYNAMIC_LINK+0 (0,0,0,0) ra0 sz0
> User-level: pid 1
> End traceback...
> Syncing disk... done

Looks like a hardware problem to me... I would try another hard drive,
check SCSI cables, terminators etc etc...

Peter Wallace