Re: error at boot
On Fri, Jun 18, 1999 at 04:26:51PM -0500, Chuque Berry wrote:
> I have a sparc 1+ booted of the CD installed w/o a hitch
> when I got to boot off the HD I get error:
>
> bad magic number is disk label
> can't open disk label package
>
>
> I have seen a bad magic number erro before when atempting to boot off of a
> CDrom that wasn't a 'sparc bootable' type.
>
> any ideas? the scsi ID is set to 3 and when booting off of the CD I
> can verify that this is correct.
Sounds like you haven't set a sun disklabel on your disk.
You can do this with fdisk, though I think you'll have to reinstall. For more info
read the notes of partioning in the sparc install notes for slink.
Someone out there probably has a better idea though, I'm a linux on sparc novice :)
Andrew
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