Date: Thu, 2 May 2002 09:06:50 -0400 (EDT) From: Andrew Gallatin <gallatin@cs.duke.edu> To: Gorm Jorgensen <Gorm@Area51.DK> Cc: freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: da0: invalid primary partition table: no magic Message-ID: <15569.14826.398617.237309@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> In-Reply-To: <20020502085524.GH25554@Area51.DK> References: <20020502085524.GH25554@Area51.DK>
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Weird. What does your /etc/fstab look like & what does your disklabel look like? Drew Gorm Jorgensen writes: > Hi, > > I have got my fingers in a AlphaStation 500 and have installed FreeBSD 4.5. > However I have a small problem when booting the box, take a look on the > following. > > -- dmesg start -- > da0 at isp0 bus 0 target 0 lun 0 > da0: <DEC RZ2CC-KA (C) DEC 5520> Fixed Direct Access SCSI-2 device > da0: Serial Number 194832740074 > da0: 20.000MB/s transfers (10.000MHz, offset 8, 16bit), Tagged Queueing > Enabled > da0: 4091MB (8380080 512 byte sectors: 255H 63S/T 521C) > > Manual root filesystem specification: > <fstype>:<device> Mount <device> using filesystem <fstype> > eg. ufs:/dev/da0s1a > ? List valid disk boot devices > <empty line> Abort manual input > > mountroot> > Mounting root from ufs:/dev/da0a > da0: invalid primary partition table: no magic > start_init: trying /sbin/init > -- dmesg stop -- > > At the mountrot> prompt i hit enter for abort, and then the system sends me > to a prompt where I have to choose a shell, hit enter for /bin/sh, and the > CRTL D for abort and then the system boots. > > I have searched arount without finding any usefull hints - anybody knows > what to do ? > > -- > Gorm Jorgensen - Area51.DK > GE d+ s: a- C+++ UB++++ P++ L+++ E--- W+++ N++ w--- O- M-- V-- P++ tv- G-- > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message
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