Finally after a long day and night.  NetBSD 1.3 is again booting on my 
2wice erased hd.

Phew.....too bad I couldn't salvage anything...

Anyways, thanks for the help and suggestions...=)

Chris

On Wed, 4 Mar 1998, Colin Wood wrote:

> 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. 
> 
> Ok.
>  
> > 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>
> 
> ewwwww....yuck.  it looks like you need to run 'fsck' on this disk pretty
> badly, of course, you'll have to be able to boot to do that.  can you boot
> single-user?
> 
> > 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. 
> 
> Hmmmm....where is sd1?  It _should_ be there.
> 
> > Any ideas? Suggestions?  Or does it look like I should just scrap 
> > everything and start over?
> 
> Well, you can try rerunning mkfs on the sd2g partition (not on sd2a unless
> you want to wipe it).  Try booting single user using the SBC kernel again
> and see if you can 'fsck' the disk.  Also, what kind of drive is this?  If
> worse comes to worse, use the Installer to copy out the essential files in
> /etc (stuff you modified like master.passwd and group) and then wipe and
> start over.  Hopefully, that won't be necessary, tho.  Perhaps someone
> else will have a better idea than myself, tho....
> 
> Later.
> 
> -- 
> Colin Wood                                 cwood@ichips.intel.com
> Component Design Engineer - MD6                 Intel Corporation
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