Re: newfs: cg 0: bad magic number

2008-01-03 Thread Stuart Henderson
On 2008/01/03 08:02, Xavier Mertens wrote: > Is that normal to have a signature of "0x0" reported by fdisk? > On my other disks, signature is 0xAA55. You overwrote things you shouldn't have when newfs'ing with offset=0. Scribble some zeros over the start of the disk (dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/rwd1c

Re: newfs: cg 0: bad magic number

2008-01-02 Thread Xavier Mertens
ubject: 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 EndingLBA Info: #: id C H S - C H S [ start:

Re: newfs: cg 0: bad magic number

2008-01-02 Thread Xavier Mertens
:4902347520 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 <

Re: newfs: cg 0: bad magic number

2008-01-02 Thread Xavier Mertens
Indeed, this test was bad... But the same occurs with an offset of 63 sectors :( Same with fdisk: fdisk: 1> edit 3 Starting EndingLBA Info: #: id C H S - C H S [ start:size ] -

Re: newfs: cg 0: bad magic number

2008-01-02 Thread Ted Unangst
On 1/2/08, Xavier Mertens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 16 partitions: > #size offset fstype [fsize bsize cpg] > a:481950 4.2BSD 2048 16384 16 your partition is not properly offset from the beginning of the disk, where all the goodies li

Re: newfs: cg 0: bad magic number

2008-01-02 Thread Martin Schröder
2008/1/3, Xavier Mertens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > When I create some partitions, write them to the disk, restart fdisk, I'm back > to the same empty config. Is my disk physically dead? :( http://www.openbsd.org/faq/faq4.html#Install 4.5.2: "On platforms which use fdisk, it is important that the fir

Re: newfs: cg 0: bad magic number

2008-01-02 Thread Nick Holland
Good thing OpenBSD only runs on one platform and one type of computer, eh? Xavier Mertens wrote: ... > > 16 partitions: > #size offset fstype [fsize bsize cpg] > a:481950 4.2BSD 2048 16384 16 > c:4902347520

Re: newfs: cg 0: bad magic number

2008-01-02 Thread Xavier Mertens
FS on an IDE disk. > All newfs commands end with: > > # newfs /dev/rwd1a > .. > .. > newfs: cg 0: bad magic number > newfs: fsinit1 failed > > Here is the disk info: > > # disklabel wd1 > # /dev/rwd1c: > type: ESDI > disk: ESDI/IDE disk > label: Max

newfs: cg 0: bad magic number

2008-01-02 Thread Xavier Mertens
Hi *, I'm trying to build a new FS on an IDE disk. All newfs commands end with: # newfs /dev/rwd1a .. .. newfs: cg 0: bad magic number newfs: fsinit1 failed Here is the disk info: # disklabel wd1 # /dev/rwd1c: type: ESDI disk: ESDI/IDE disk label: Maxtor 6B250R0 flags: bytes/sector