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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!network.ucsd.edu!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!uwm.edu!ogicse!news.u.washington.edu!ns1.nodak.edu!plains.NoDak.edu!ortmann From: ortmann@plains.NoDak.edu (Daniel Ortmann) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.bugs Subject: An interesting "bad magic number error" and solution Message-ID: <C497tq.I31@ns1.nodak.edu> Date: 21 Mar 93 19:37:02 GMT Article-I.D.: ns1.C497tq.I31 Sender: usenet@ns1.nodak.edu (Usenet login) Organization: North Dakota Higher Education Computing Network Lines: 17 Nntp-Posting-Host: plains.nodak.edu Everything seemed to work perfectly fine until I applied the patches up to 110. Then the kernel refused to mount /usr saying "bad magic number". The only thing I could guess the problem might be is that I did not have a good disktab. I had been rushed when installing 386BSD on the Gateway2000 isa system and mistakenly did not line up the partition sector numbers on a cylinder boundary. After archiving the file system, reworking the disktab entry, and rewriting the disklabel.....the new kernel works perfectly. I just thought I would post in case anyone else was running into this problem. -- Daniel Ortmann NDSU Electrical Engineering ortmann@plains.nodak.edu Fargo, North Dakota