On Mon, Aug 16, 2010 at 10:35:58AM +0200, Dick Hoogendijk wrote: > 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.
It could be that newfs is overwriting the partition table. Can you post the output of 'gpart show <device>' and 'bsdlabel <device>s1'? Roland -- R.F.Smith http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/ [plain text _non-HTML_ PGP/GnuPG encrypted/signed email much appreciated] pgp: 1A2B 477F 9970 BA3C 2914 B7CE 1277 EFB0 C321 A725 (KeyID: C321A725)
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