From owner-freebsd-alpha Thu May 2 6:25: 3 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from duke.cs.duke.edu (duke.cs.duke.edu [152.3.140.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E3FC937B41B for ; Thu, 2 May 2002 06:24:54 -0700 (PDT) Received: from grasshopper.cs.duke.edu (grasshopper.cs.duke.edu [152.3.145.30]) by duke.cs.duke.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id JAA10035; Thu, 2 May 2002 09:24:53 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from gallatin@localhost) by grasshopper.cs.duke.edu (8.11.6/8.9.1) id g42DONT31878; Thu, 2 May 2002 09:24:23 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from gallatin@cs.duke.edu) From: Andrew Gallatin MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15569.15879.864537.597011@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> Date: Thu, 2 May 2002 09:24:23 -0400 (EDT) To: Gorm Jorgensen Cc: freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: da0: invalid primary partition table: no magic In-Reply-To: <20020502131427.GO25554@Area51.DK> References: <20020502085524.GH25554@Area51.DK> <15569.14826.398617.237309@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> <20020502131427.GO25554@Area51.DK> X-Mailer: VM 6.75 under 21.1 (patch 12) "Channel Islands" XEmacs Lucid 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 Gorm Jorgensen writes: > > 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. Given your fstab, it certainly looks like it is valid. I'm not sure why you end up at the mountroot prompt. What flags are you booting with from the SRM console? Are you booting from the installed disk, or from the installation media? Try being certain you are booting from da0 (probably will be dka0) with a null boot file & flags. >>> boot dka0 -fi '' -fl '' And see if anything changes.. Drew > -- 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 -- <..> > # 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 -- <..> > > > 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. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message