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From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
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To: Gary Kline <kline@tera.com>
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Subject: Re: No Magic Number
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On Wed, 26 Mar 1997, Gary Kline wrote:

> 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.

Oh, you got that working, I'll remove that mail :)

For the "expanded" version of this, I worked up a tutorial last night that
should do the job.  See http://resnet.uoregon.edu/dwhite/makedisk.html.

I'll submit the text to the doc list later on...

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major