On Wed, 17 Sep 1997, tcjam wrote:

I didn't think this was the off by one partition problems as I thought
that had been fixed in the installer that I was using which was
pretty recent.

> Seconded!  I recently reformated my 2gig quantum with three HFS
> partitions, NetBSD root&usr/NetBSD swap and had the installer crap out in
> the same way. I managed to get past it by rearranging the partition map I
> think but I'd like to see this resolved.
> 
> tcjam
> 
> On Wed, 17 Sep 1997, Christopher R. Bowman wrote:
> 
> > Since someone else on this list is talking about problems with disk drives
> > I thought I would add my own experience.  I recently bought a 2gig Seagate
> > Medalist Ultra SCSI (narrow) drive that I installed in my 660av, I
> > partitioned it into 3 mac drives and a netbsd and swap partiton, the
> > macside newfs worked fine, but the installer crashed into macsbugs
> > every time it started up. This is not a case of operator error, I have
> > done lots of installs.  The disk is working fine under MacOS, and
> > I took this drive and mounted it from within netbsd (I used another disk
> > on the same machine as root, and mounted this disk as /u1) and it
> > works fine there, but when I coppied over all of my other root disk
> > onto the Seagate  and tried to boot it, the booter refused.  I haven't
> > been able to play with this for a while, and when I get a chance I will
> > step through the installer in a debugger to see what is going on, but I
> > thought I would give the list a heads up, and see if anyone has any ideas.
> > 
> > ---------
> > Christopher R. Bowman
> > crb@Glue.umd.edu
> > My home page 
> > 
> > 
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