Re: Bad Magic

[Tom Allison <tallison@tacocat.net>]

Nicos Gollan wrote:
> 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.

I got this prior to the 'LILO' line.

The problem was pretty simple but hard to recognize.

1) I cannot see the front of the PC tower
2) I use ext2 floppies and had one in the bay
3) Boot sequence is Floppy, CD-ROM, HDD

I was attempting to boot from a data disk.

However, I'm used to a different message...

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