On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 04:49 AM, Adam Vande More <amvandem...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sun, Aug 15, 2010 at 1:45 PM, Dick Hoogendijk <d...@nagual.nl> wrote: > > My 500Gb drives won't however. they keep on giving cg); bad magic number. > > Sysinstall won't newfs the drives. newfs -U /dev/gm1a (created with the > > script mentioned before does not work OK either. Always this unexplained > > message (cg0: bad magic number). I have NO CLUE whatsoever what can be the > > cause of this. Both drives can be formatted by Windows, Linux and lots of > > other utilities. They can not be formatted UFS2 for / by FreeBSD-8.1/amd64 > > You can try to get your system up and running using something like > http://mfsbsd.vx.sk/ or pcbsd. If that works, then I guess the possible > cause is you. :-)
Good idea. I will give it a shot, although I'm pretty sure I'm not the cause. I have four years experience as a (Open)Solaris system administrator and before that I used FreeBSD heavely. From the 4.10 series up to the 6.x series. So I do know something about the matter. But, we'll see... Keep you posted. _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
