Date: Wed, 31 Jan 1996 14:38:58 +1100 From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org, j@uriah.heep.sax.de Subject: Re: invalid primary partition table: no magic Message-ID: <199601310338.OAA11342@godzilla.zeta.org.au>
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>Couldn't we find a way to stop this? >uriah # vnconfig -c /dev/rvn0 fooimage >uriah # Jan 30 23:51:48 uriah /kernel: vn0: invalid primary partition table: no magic >It's starting to get annoying. Not only that any /dev/zero-created >empty file that we are about to disklabel during the release process >causes this bogus warning (until it's disklabeled -B), but fooimage >above was an cd9660 image, so the warning is not of much use. >Since the warning is not of interest for ``ordinary people'' anyway, >i'd vote for hiding it behind some debugging option (perhaps enabled >via sysconfig). It is an error for disks that should have a partition table, but since there is no way of telling which disks those are, it is hard to tell when to suppress the warning. For emulating physical disks that don't have partition tables or labels, don't use the `-s labels' option to vnconfig. Bruce
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