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Re: install prob MAGIC NUMBER WRONG



You may need to boot up off a Sun CD and run format. At least this is a
problem I have seen installing Sun Solaris on new or non-Sun disks.

                           John O'Connor


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Stefan Kiczerjak" <stefan.kiczerjak@kontrast.de>
To: <debian-sparc@lists.debian.org>
Sent: Monday, June 16, 2003 2:54 AM
Subject: install prob MAGIC NUMBER WRONG


> Hi list,
> i want to install woody on a sparc station.
> i have used the s key in fsdisk to create a Sun disk label, but
> unfortunately the machine hangs at boottime with following error
> message:
> BAD SUPER BLOCK: MAGIC NUMBER WRONG
>
> if have tried all block-numbers i have got from:
> #newfs -N /dev/dsk/c0t3d0s1
> with:
> #fsck -F ufs -o b=[block-number] /dev/dsk/c0t3d0s1
> without success.
>
> every suggestion will be appreciated
>
> regards
> stefan
>
>
>
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