From owner-freebsd-alpha Thu May 2 6: 7:25 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-alpha@freebsd.org Received: from duke.cs.duke.edu (duke.cs.duke.edu [152.3.140.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 92E6F37B41A for ; Thu, 2 May 2002 06:07:21 -0700 (PDT) Received: from grasshopper.cs.duke.edu (grasshopper.cs.duke.edu [152.3.145.30]) by duke.cs.duke.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id JAA09498; Thu, 2 May 2002 09:07:20 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from gallatin@localhost) by grasshopper.cs.duke.edu (8.11.6/8.9.1) id g42D6o031855; Thu, 2 May 2002 09:06:50 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from gallatin@cs.duke.edu) From: Andrew Gallatin MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15569.14826.398617.237309@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> Date: Thu, 2 May 2002 09:06:50 -0400 (EDT) To: Gorm Jorgensen Cc: freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: da0: invalid primary partition table: no magic In-Reply-To: <20020502085524.GH25554@Area51.DK> References: <20020502085524.GH25554@Area51.DK> X-Mailer: VM 6.75 under 21.1 (patch 12) "Channel Islands" XEmacs Lucid Sender: owner-freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Weird. What does your /etc/fstab look like & what does your disklabel look like? Drew Gorm Jorgensen writes: > Hi, > > I have got my fingers in a AlphaStation 500 and have installed FreeBSD 4.5. > However I have a small problem when booting the box, take a look on the > following. > > -- dmesg start -- > da0 at isp0 bus 0 target 0 lun 0 > da0: Fixed Direct Access SCSI-2 device > da0: Serial Number 194832740074 > da0: 20.000MB/s transfers (10.000MHz, offset 8, 16bit), Tagged Queueing > Enabled > da0: 4091MB (8380080 512 byte sectors: 255H 63S/T 521C) > > Manual root filesystem specification: > : Mount using filesystem > eg. ufs:/dev/da0s1a > ? List valid disk boot devices > Abort manual input > > mountroot> > Mounting root from ufs:/dev/da0a > da0: invalid primary partition table: no magic > start_init: trying /sbin/init > -- dmesg stop -- > > At the mountrot> prompt i hit enter for abort, and then the system sends me > to a prompt where I have to choose a shell, hit enter for /bin/sh, and the > CRTL D for abort and then the system boots. > > I have searched arount without finding any usefull hints - anybody knows > what to do ? > > -- > Gorm Jorgensen - Area51.DK > GE d+ s: a- C+++ UB++++ P++ L+++ E--- W+++ N++ w--- O- M-- V-- P++ tv- G-- > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-alpha" in the body of the message