From owner-freebsd-alpha Thu May 2 6:14:38 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from C-Tower.Area51.DK (c-tower.area51.dk [212.242.89.130]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id D7A2F37B404 for ; Thu, 2 May 2002 06:14:29 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 23679 invoked by uid 1000); 2 May 2002 13:14:27 -0000 Date: Thu, 2 May 2002 15:14:27 +0200 From: Gorm Jorgensen To: freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: da0: invalid primary partition table: no magic Message-ID: <20020502131427.GO25554@Area51.DK> References: <20020502085524.GH25554@Area51.DK> <15569.14826.398617.237309@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <15569.14826.398617.237309@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.28i Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > Weird. What does your /etc/fstab look like & what does your disklabel > look like? > Seems like there is no label on the disk - take a look below. -- fstab start -- cat /etc/fstab # See the fstab(5) manual page for important information on automatic mounts # of network filesystems before modifying this file. # # Device Mountpoint FStype Options Dump # Pass# /dev/da0b none swap sw 0 0 /dev/da0a / ufs rw 1 1 /dev/acd0c /cdrom cd9660 ro,noauto 0 0 proc /proc procfs rw 0 0 -- fstab stop -- -- disklabel start -- disklabel -r /dev/da0 # /dev/da0: type: SCSI disk: da0 label: flags: bytes/sector: 512 sectors/track: 63 tracks/cylinder: 255 sectors/cylinder: 16065 cylinders: 521 sectors/unit: 8380080 rpm: 3600 interleave: 1 trackskew: 0 cylinderskew: 0 headswitch: 0 # milliseconds track-to-track seek: 0 # milliseconds drivedata: 0 8 partitions: # size offset fstype [fsize bsize bps/cpg] a: 8192000 0 4.2BSD 2048 16384 89 # (Cyl. 0 - 509*) b: 188080 8192000 swap # (Cyl. 509*- 521*) c: 8380080 0 unused 0 0 # (Cyl. 0 - 521*) -- disklabel stop -- > > 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: 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: > > : Mount using filesystem > > eg. ufs:/dev/da0s1a > > ? List valid disk boot devices > > 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