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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!metro!metro!news.ci.com.au!newshost.telstra.net!act.news.telstra.net!imci3!pull-feed.internetmci.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!news.mathworks.com!fu-berlin.de!irz401!orion.sax.de!uriah.heep!news From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re: invalid primary partition table: no magic Date: 1 Sep 1996 14:34:37 GMT Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden Lines: 21 Message-ID: <50c6tt$h3h@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <1996Aug30.190941.22367@cs.mun.ca> Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.heep.sax.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.6 X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E In-Reply-To: <1996Aug30.190941.22367@cs.mun.ca> To: paul8@cs.mun.ca (Paul Manuel) paul8@cs.mun.ca (Paul Manuel) wrote: > After I created new partitions on a SCSI disk and mounted them I get > the error "/kernel sd0: invalid primary partition table: no magic", > yet everything seems to work fine. This means your first sector doesn't end up in 0x55aa. It's a warning only, telling you that the slice code has just disabled itself. Annoying, but benign. > Please e-mail response, thanks. [Posted and mailed.] -- 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. ;-)