Date: Wed, 15 Oct 1997 10:19:57 -0700 (MST) From: Tony Jones <tony@rtd.com> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: SCSI Q: invalid primary partition table: no magic Message-ID: <199710151719.KAA26741@seagull.rtd.com>
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I just moved a SCSI disk that I was using for Windoze over to FreeBSD, didn't
have any major problems in creating the FS but each time I mount it,
"sd3: invalid primary partition table: no magic" is displayed on the console.
To create the disk I did:
format
zero label (dd)
disklabel -rw sd3 auto ; disklabel -e sd3
newfs sd3
Which is fairly close to section "2.3. Making Dedicated Mode Disks Using the
Command Line" in Doug White's disk tutorial (except I didn't do the
'disklabel | disklabel -R' part - what exactly is the intent of this since
the old label was just zeroed ?).
Is the problem that I didn't initialise the FDISK slice table ? Right now it
contains garbage. I downloaded Greg Lemeys disk chapter from his ftp site and
noticed that under 'doing it the hard way' he first does the FDISK stuff.
Thanks, Tony (please CC me on any e-mail replies)
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