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Date:      Thu, 2 May 2002 10:55:25 +0200
From:      Gorm Jorgensen <Gorm@Area51.DK>
To:        freebsd-alpha@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   da0: invalid primary partition table: no magic
Message-ID:  <20020502085524.GH25554@Area51.DK>

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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: <DEC RZ2CC-KA (C) DEC 5520> 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:
  <fstype>:<device>  Mount <device> using filesystem <fstype>
                       eg. ufs:/dev/da0s1a
  ?                  List valid disk boot devices
  <empty line>       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
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