[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mark W. Eichin) writes: > So, I went through the install, and an old problem reappeared...
> When booting off of this disk (sd(0,2,0)), I get > Bad magic number in disk label! > S > Bad magic number in disk label! > IProgram terminated. > ok > I assume this is because (1) the disk was originally formatted on an > x86 linux box, so it has a DOS partition table (2) fdisk isn't a "big > enough hammer" to fix that... > I did note that fdisk had a "b" option for "edit bsd partition table" > but all it said was "/dev/sdb has no BSD-style partition table"... > I did find (after rebooting with the rescue zip disk) the eXpert mode > "g" option for "create an IRIX partition table" which is somewhat > distressing... and in fact, that looks like what it *does* do. Very > very strange. On the sparc, fdisk has: s create a new empty Sun disklabel which is what you want. (It appears that "s" is in the intel version too - although it doesn't appear in the menus, and I don't know for sure if all the endian issues are worked out.) Intelsilo is at: http://www.cse.msu.edu/~dunham/debian/silo/ as soon as the maintainer folds my changes into the package in potato, I'll generate a potato intelsilo. (May be done already, I'll have to check.) Steve [EMAIL PROTECTED]