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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!metro!metro!asstdc.scgt.oz.au!nsw.news.telstra.net!act.news.telstra.net!vic.news.telstra.net!news.mira.net.au!inquo!in-news.erinet.com!bug.rahul.net!rahul.net!a2i!samba.rahul.net!rahul.net!a2i!sierra.net!imci5!imci4!newsfeed.internetmci.com!newshub.csu.net!usc!howland.reston.ans.net!EU.net!Germany.EU.net!zib-berlin.de!news.tu-chemnitz.de!irz401!uriah.heep!news 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 Lines: 20 Message-ID: <4lsot9$89n@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <317FD223.4DFB@shoreland.com> 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 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. ;-)