From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Jun 20 19:39:52 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id TAA16405 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Sat, 20 Jun 1998 19:39:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from nanguo.chalmers.com.au (gateway.chalmers.com.au [203.1.96.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id TAA16395 for ; Sat, 20 Jun 1998 19:39:44 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from robert@nanguo.chalmers.com.au) Received: (from robert@localhost) by nanguo.chalmers.com.au (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA00357 for hackers@freebsd.org; Sun, 21 Jun 1998 12:38:42 +1000 (EST) From: Robert Chalmers Message-Id: <199806210238.MAA00357@nanguo.chalmers.com.au> Subject: sd1: error with no magic number. Whats it all mean To: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Date: Sun, 21 Jun 1998 12:38:42 +1000 (EST) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL22 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG This is the only message I get now about the structure of the second hard disk I've been experimenting with. /kernel: sd1: invalid primary partition table: no magic I built the disk with /etc/disktab, and disklabel. I put together the disktab myself from examples and trial and error. It now all works, except it returns this message. There is no a partition, because as I understand it, only the primary, or boot/root partition should have an 'a' partition. There can be as many of the others as make up the different disks. According to the hand book anyway. 6 partitions: # size offset fstype [fsize bsize bps/cpg] b: 336640 0 swap # (Cyl. 0 - 174*) c: 4110000 0 unused 1024 8192 # (Cyl. 0 - 2133*) d: 1257787 336640 4.2BSD 1024 8192 0 # (Cyl. 174*- 827*) e: 1257787 1594427 4.2BSD 1024 8192 0 # (Cyl. 827*- 1480*) f: 1257787 2852213 4.2BSD 1024 8192 0 # (Cyl. 1480*- 2133*) Everything works fine. fsck's ok and mounts and so on. So. What is this message... /kernel: sd1: invalid primary partition table: no magic and how do I give it some magic, if this is what it wants? cheers Robert To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message