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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
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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. ;-)