Date: Wed, 26 Mar 1997 13:35:20 -0800 (PST) From: Gary Kline <kline@tera.com> To: kotay@ahwanee.cs.dartmouth.edu Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: No Magic Number Message-ID: <199703262135.NAA04070@athena.tera.com> In-Reply-To: <199703262023.PAA16286@ahwanee.cs.dartmouth.edu> from "kotay@ahwanee.cs.dartmouth.edu" at "Mar 26, 97 03:23:35 pm"
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According to kotay@ahwanee.cs.dartmouth.edu: > I recently installed a second external SCSI drive on one > of our FreeBSD machines. I followed the instructions in > the handbook for setting up the drive (disklabel, newfs, > mount). The drive seems to be working fine except at boot > time when I get a message saying that the partitions do > not have a magic number which won't allow fsck to check > them. Have I instaled the drive incorrectly? How do I > get these magic numbers onto the partitions? > I had the same problems for more time than I care to admit. Finally, thanks to the help from a gentleman on this list, I got the correct pointer. Check into your /stand/sysinstall binary. The following FAQ will give you a very brief intro:: /usr/share/doc/FAQ/freebsd-faq.html Check out #3.13 titled "3.13" I think this faq-html needs to be expanded several hundred percent. But it was enough to get my new (2nd) SCSI drive installed correctly. gary kline
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