Date: Thu, 27 Mar 1997 13:41:54 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: Gary Kline <kline@tera.com> Cc: kotay@ahwanee.cs.dartmouth.edu, questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: No Magic Number Message-ID: <Pine.BSI.3.94.970327134111.614J-100000@localhost> In-Reply-To: <199703262135.NAA04070@athena.tera.com>
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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
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