Is that normal to have a signature of "0x0" reported by fdisk? On my other disks, signature is 0xAA55. Thanks for your help!
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Xavier Mertens Sent: jeudi 3 janvier 2008 2:28 To: misc@openbsd.org Subject: Re: newfs: cg 0: bad magic number Ok, I fixed the disk partitions: # fdisk wd1 Disk: wd1 geometry: 30515/255/63 [490234752 Sectors] Offset: 0 Signature: 0x0 Starting Ending LBA Info: #: id C H S - C H S [ start: size ] ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 0: 00 0 0 0 - 0 0 0 [ 0: 0 ] unused 1: A6 0 1 1 - 30514 254 63 [ 63: 490223412 ] OpenBSD 2: 00 0 0 0 - 0 0 0 [ 0: 0 ] unused 3: 00 0 0 0 - 0 0 0 [ 0: 0 ] unused # disklabel wd1 # Inside MBR partition 1: type A6 start 63 size 490223412 # /dev/rwd1c: type: ESDI disk: ESDI/IDE disk label: Maxtor 6B250R0 flags: bytes/sector: 512 sectors/track: 63 tracks/cylinder: 255 sectors/cylinder: 16065 cylinders: 30515 total sectors: 490234752 rpm: 3600 interleave: 1 trackskew: 0 cylinderskew: 0 headswitch: 0 # microseconds track-to-track seek: 0 # microseconds drivedata: 0 16 partitions: # size offset fstype [fsize bsize cpg] a: 490223412 63 4.2BSD 2048 16384 16 c: 490234752 0 unused 0 0 But I still have the same error at the end of the newfs: newfs: cg 0: bad magic number newfs: fsinit1 failed :( Xavier -- Hint: A reload a day, keeps the TAC away ..... On Wed, 2 Jan 2008, Ted Unangst wrote: > On 1/2/08, Xavier Mertens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 16 partitions: > > # size offset fstype [fsize bsize cpg] > > a: 48195 0 4.2BSD 2048 16384 16 > > your partition is not properly offset from the beginning of the disk, > where all the goodies like mbr need to live.
