Peter:

Interesting FAQ.. I missed it but I don't know if
it helps me :<

The ultra-sparc machine I don't think has the limit
on where the bios can access the root volumn...it may
but I have not heard of such a thing... there is no
fdisk at all (I looked for this earlier)... I guess
I could attempt to build a 500M root partition on my
disk and see if it does not do better...

In the mean time I do have a solaris download of 2.8 going
on .. I figured I would cut a solaris install disk. Dump in
solaris.. get the disk loading and working and then wipe
it out with OpenBSD and see if it will work after solaris
gets in and fixes up the disk label for the boot-rom.

R

Peter Varga wrote:
>
> 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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Randall R. Stewart
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