On Dec 2, 2007, at 12:47 PM, Hauke Fath wrote:

> At 8:21 Uhr -0700 1.12.2007, Thomas Carlson wrote:
>> I have been following the progress of NetBSD 4.0 through the RC5
>> version and find that my Powerbook 180 sporting a Cabletron EA414
>> SCSI/ethernet adaptor can actually boot kern-GENERICSBC just fine
>> (kern-GENERIC hangs at "waiting for device to settle")  Problem is,
>> when I use: < /sbin/mount -u -w / > to mount the root file system
>> read/write and modify /etc/rc.conf to read <rc_configured=YES> I get a
>> message saying that the magic numbers do not match when I reboot.
>> What's the problem here?  Any suggestions?
>
> Hmmm...
>
> Can you access the root partition from single user mode?

Initially I can, on the first boot it drops into single user mode.  
After mounting /, no.

>
> What does a 'file /dev/rsd0a' say?

On first boot...  /dev/rsd0a:  character special (13/0).  After 
mounting /, and booting with an install kernel, I get...  use one of:  
fd0[a-h] sd0[a-h] se0 ddb halt reboot

>
> When and how (as in: What NetBSD version, from sysinst or the MacOS 
> mkfs
> tool) was the file-system created?

NetBSD-4.0_RC5.  I used the MacOS mkfs utility.

>
> Can you mount the root filesystem after booting from an install kernel?

Initially, yes.  After mounting /, no.

>
> Can you mount the root filesystem from a NetBSD 3.x install kernel?

None of the NetBSD3.x kernels have booted on my machine.  They all stop 
at... panic:  no init.

>
> 	hauke
>
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