sysid is 0xa9, or 169.
start at 63 till ....
faq#14.

You could let it boot from the network and try to see what really
is on the disk, or try to install again and choose update proceed
to single user mode and gather info. disklabel fdisk etc..

I had similar problem with bad harddrive lost disklabel.

Peter

On Tue, Apr 02, 2002 at 04:03:22PM -0600, Randall Stewart wrote:
> Hi:
>
> I am attempting to get a U-5 up and loaded. I have a freebsd
> machine on a x86 that I am using to do a network install.
> I get everything loaded (using the current snap from March 31).
> Partition it all and go through all the fun.. everything completes
> and the when I reboot I get:
>
> Bad magic number in disk label
> Can't open disk label package
>
> Then it drops back to going to boot to the network....
>
> Is there a step I missed? The disk was a new one I added
> to the machine that did NOT have an O/S on it at all?
>
> Is there some special label I needed to do to get a "good magic
> number" in place (other than the standard disklabel program
> that the install runs)?
>
> Thanks
> R
> --
> Randall R. Stewart
> randallstewart.chicago.il.us 815-342-5222 (cell phone)

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