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From: Steve Howe <un_x@anchorage.net>
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Subject: Re: What is "invalid primary partition... magic"?
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On Sun, 11 May 1997, Allen Sitho wrote:

a magic number exists in the partitions table so that
the block on the hard drive may be verified to be
a partition table ...

it's serious if it is causing you problems.

> Hello,
> 	When I tried to run Sysintall I get this message at the beginning.
> "Invalid Primary Partition Table.. magic."  What is this?  Should it be 
> something I worry about?  I have dos 622 on the first partition of the 
> drive and bsd on the second partition.  Is this a problem of mounting dos 
> partition? Or is it more serious?  Thanks.
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