Ok, heres what I did.  As you suggested I booted many times trying with 
the generic kernel.  Kept on hanging at the same spot.  My cables are 
good and it is porperlly terminated. 

I then tried the sbc kernel as you reccomended.  It looked like it was 
going okay until after it got the the PRAM entry.  Here is what it 
displayed:

<snip>
root file system type: ffs
/: bad dir ino 18496 at offset 0: mangled entry
panic: bad dir
stopped at _Debugger+0x6: unlk a6
</snip>

then it dropped into the debugger.  Out of pure fustration I decided to 
try the generic non-sbc kernel again.  It did exactly the same thing as 
above, like the sbc kernel.

I also went into the mini-shell and did a disklabel.  I got:

sd0a: Other (APPLE_DRIVER43) 'Macintosh' at 64 size 32
sd0b: HFS 'MacOS' at 96 size 249972
Error on SCSIRead(), # 5
sd2a: Root 'A/UX Root' at 128 size 512000
sd2g: Usr 'NetBSD Usr' at 2094256 size 409600
sd2b: Swap 'Swap' at 512128 size 49152
sd2d: Other (APPLE_DRIVER43) 'Macintosh_SL' at 64 size 64
sd2e: HFS 'MacII' at 561280 size 1532976

so, looking at that sd2g should be what I want to be my new home dir. 

Any ideas? Suggestions?  Or does it look like I should just scrap 
everything and start over?

Chris

1 On Tue, 3 Mar 1998, Colin Wood wrote:

> Chris wrote:
> > Colin,
> > I did as you suggested, but now I'm having problems booting.  Here's 
> > exactly what I did:
> > Opened up SilverLining and instructed it to make a new A/UX User Slice 0 
> > from some extra space on my MacOS partition.  That went fine.  Ran mkfs 
> > to convert that into a usable file system for netbsd, no problems there 
> > either.  Now, I ran the booter...it **looked** like it was booting fine 
> > until it got to the ncrscsi part.  It reads `ncrscsi0 at obio0' and after 
> > that it just sits there.  Do you or anyone else have any ideas?
> 
> Try an SBC kernel?  :-)
> 
> Actually, you might want to run the Installer utility and do a disklabel
> in the MiniShell to see if your partition shows up there correctly.
> 
> > Heres my setup.
> > Macintosh IIvx 12 MB RAM
> > It is running off a hard drive at scsi ID6  sd2 in netbsd.
> > sd2a is my root&user sd2b is my swap.  I have one other MacOS partition.
> > Running NetBSD 1.3 with GENERIC #61 kernel.
> 
> Where's your new partition?  Is your SCSI chain properly terminated?
> 
> > Help Please...
> 
> Please try an SBC kernel and see if it works better for you.  Hopefully,
> that'll fix the problem.  Also, since these errors aren't always
> reproducible, try it again several times and see if it'll boot one of
> them.
> 
> Later.
> 
> -- 
> Colin Wood                                 cwood@ichips.intel.com
> Component Design Engineer - MD6                 Intel Corporation
> -----------------------------------------------------------------
> I speak only on my own behalf, not for my employer.
>