On Wed, 4 Mar 1998, Chris wrote:

> 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.

That sounds bad.

It actually sounds like your root FS is hosed. So bad that it can't
mount.

What installer are you using? And what MkFS?

Take care,

Bill