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From: j@bonnie.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: no magic?
Date: 7 Aug 1995 14:50:49 +0200
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Coranth Gryphon <gryphon@msgi.com> wrote:
>Hi. I just added a second IDE HD to my FreeBSD 2.0.5R system.
>I did the disklabel, and the newfs. Seems like everything is
>ok, but on startup I get the following:
>
> wd1: invalid primary partition table: no magic
>
>Is this a problem waiting to spring? Is there a simple solution?
Basically means you don't have a valid FDISK partition table. Nothing
much to care unless your disk drive is ever to see a Messy DOS fdisk
program again. DOS 6.X fdisk doesn't like invalid partition tables,
and so it's simply trashing the existing `garbage'.
--
cheers, J"org private: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de
http://www.sax.de/~joerg/
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)