Hi,

>         I have a Quadra 630 that I just got and would like to run BSD on.
> I have an external 1.3 GB hard drive which I already have it installed on
> and have been running fine on my IIci (which I gave to my mom) for months
> now. I tried booting exactly as I had run it on my IIci, and it hung up. I
> was using the GENERIC kernel which came with the 1.2.1 release... which
> kernel should I use that has been known to work with a Quadra 630? It is
> pretty much a standard 630, with 12 MB RAM now... plus my external 1.3 GB
> SCSI and 12x SCSI CD-ROM (both which worked fine with the IIci)
>
>         And, once I update the kernel, will I need to update anything
> else? Should I stick with the 1.2.1 release or should I try for -current?

Your IIci has internal hard disk drive, doesn't it?  If not, please
ignore followings.  Also please ignore when I give you bad advices.

If your IIci has internal drive, it must be SCSI-id = 0.  Therefore
this dirve might be recognized as sd0.  So your external hard disk
dirve migyt be sd1.

On Quadra630, the internal hard disk dirve is not SCSI but IDE type.
Therefore NetBSD kernel skips it.  So your external hard disk now
become to recognized as sd0, I think.

I hear you can boot NetBSD on external drive.  Concerning this,
your /etc/fstab is badly written so as to work on not sd0 but sd1.

Please check followings:

        with "Mini Shell" on "installer utility",
        type following command

                > cat /etc/fstab

        you may see such as
                /dev/sd0a       /               ffs rw 1 1
                ... and so on

        if you see "sd1a" instead of "sd0a", /etc/fstab is bad.

        Try to re-write it

                > fstab force
                > cat /etc/fstab

        Now exit from Mini Shell and quit.

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