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Re: Bad Magic

On Monday 27 January 2003 02:31, Tom Allison wrote:
> What does this mean?
>
> I'm failing at the beginning of a boot.

You mean you get the message directly after LILO (or BRUB or whatever you're 
using as bootmanager) is done? It would be helpful if you could pinpoint that 
a little more precisely.

"Bad magic" means that the identifying bytes at the beginning of some file are 
not what was expected, so the file is probably corrupt.

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