Subject: Re: port-mac68k/37474: After installing a system, booting into it, and mounting /, I get a message saying that the magic numbers don't match upon reboot.
To: None <port-mac68k-maintainer@netbsd.org, gnats-admin@netbsd.org,>
From: Thomas Carlson <tcarlson@myback40.com>
List: netbsd-bugs
Date: 12/07/2007 13:00:06
The following reply was made to PR port-mac68k/37474; it has been noted by GNATS.
From: Thomas Carlson <tcarlson@myback40.com>
To: gnats-bugs@NetBSD.org
Cc:
Subject: Re: port-mac68k/37474: After installing a system, booting into it, and mounting /, I get a message saying that the magic numbers don't match upon reboot.
Date: Fri, 7 Dec 2007 05:57:33 -0700
On Dec 6, 2007, at 8:20 PM, Scott Reynolds wrote:
> The following reply was made to PR port-mac68k/37474; it has been
> noted by GNATS.
>
> From: Scott Reynolds <scottr@clank.org>
> To: gnats-bugs@NetBSD.org, tcarlson@myback40.com
> Cc:
> Subject: Re: port-mac68k/37474: After installing a system, booting
> into it, and mounting /, I get a message saying that the magic numbers
> don't match upon reboot.
> Date: Thu, 6 Dec 2007 21:18:11 -0600
>
> You may find that removing the Cabletron box will help boot with the
> GENERIC kernel. It shouldn't matter but the SCSI drivers were written
> using rather incomplete documentation for the custom SCSI controller
> chips used in the various systems.
That would be counterproductive as the se0 device is the only
connection to my network on this old machine (Powerbook 180).
>
> There is also a possibility that you can drop the GENERICSBC driver
> down to PIO mode to work around this issue.
I don't know how to do that.
Cheers, Tom