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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Partition error: "no magic"
Date: 24 May 1996 21:23:24 GMT
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myers@freebsd.interramp.com (David C. Myers) wrote:

> root> mount /dev/od0a /optical
> od0: invalid primary partition table: no magic

This is a warning only, though it might be annoying.

You can install a bootstrap onto your medium (even though you'll never
use it) in order to avoid it:

	disklabel -B od0

-- 
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. ;-)