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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Don't Understand
Date: 27 Apr 1996 09:20:41 GMT
Organization: Private FreeBSD site, Dresden
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Thanva Khouvongsavanh <thanva@shoreland.com> writes:

>Can anyone help me interpret this:
>
>  sd1: invalid primary partition table: no magic

It means that the very first sector of your new disk does not (yet)
contain the 0x55aa signature at its end, indicating that it does not
contain a valid fdisk table.  If you know what you've done, you can
simply ignore this warning.  Otherwise, you have to get some sort of
fdisk table onto the disk, either with fdisk(8), or with ``disklabel
-B sd1'' (depending whether you are using a ``dangerously dedicated''
disk or not).

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)