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Bad Magic Number in Disk Label
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Name: Rob Clarke
Date: February 21, 2001 at 01:18:02 Pacific
Subject: Bad Magic Number in Disk Label
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Comment: I have an ULTRA Sparc which has Solaris 2.6 installed, and has been running quite happily. However, I have rebooted the machine and all I now get is: Bad Magic Number in Disk Label
Can't open disk label package
Boot device: net File and args:
Timeout waiting for ARP/RARP packet I can't even get to a prompt.
Is the disk volume label corrupt?
How do I recover from this without getting to a prompt? Rob.
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Response Number 1
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Name: oliver
Date: February 21, 2001 at 08:27:03 Pacific
Subject: Bad Magic Number in Disk Label |
Reply: (edit)hit STOP-A and boot from CD
STOP-A
OK> boot cdrom -s
# fsck
Don't know if this will fix it or not but it's a start. Did anything change in the server (hardware?)
I once saw this problem when the disk wasn't seated properly
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Response Number 2
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Name: oliver
Date: February 21, 2001 at 08:28:34 Pacific
Subject: Bad Magic Number in Disk Label |
Reply: (edit)that should read
# fsck /dev/dsk/c0t0d0s0 (or whatever your boot disk is)
This board doesnt like the use of greater than and less than signs
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Response Number 3
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Name: Rob Clarke
Date: February 22, 2001 at 02:29:05 Pacific
Subject: Bad Magic Number in Disk Label
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Reply: (edit)Thanks for the reply. STOP A worked in getting me to the boot prompt.
I them booted from CD, using your suggested course of action.
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Response Number 4
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Name: David Glenn
Date: June 6, 2001 at 09:40:33 Pacific
Subject: Bad Magic Number in Disk Label
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Reply: (edit)I'm having a similar problem, but with a CD that
was generated with a CD-Recorder. I'm trying to
boot with the newly created CD, but get the
message "Bad Magic Number...".Obviously, the
above solution will not work on a non writable CD. Does anyone have a suggestion?
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Response Number 5
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Name: Ivan Poblete
Date: June 7, 2001 at 16:55:02 Pacific
Subject: Bad Magic Number in Disk Label
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Reply: (edit)I had a problem alike: I have a Ultra 10 with a recently changed CDROM drive (the Goldstar it came with went dead). The new one is an ASUS 50x (atapi). The change was ok and I could install Solaris 2.6 in a SCSI disk. The U10 already had a second HD (Maxtor 30 GB, only 8 used in Solaris 2.6), so I tried to change this one for a Fujitsu (8 GB). The problem is that after I changed the disks I couldn't boot from the CDROM again. The message is: Bad magic number in disk label
Can't open disk label package Any hint? Ivan.
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Response Number 6
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Name: Jay
Date: July 20, 2001 at 13:15:17 Pacific
Subject: Bad Magic Number in Disk Label |
Reply: (edit)I'm having a similiar problem running Solaris 2.6 on a Sparc 10. I'm trying to add a second disk, but when I install the disk and try to boot I get the Bad Magic Number in Disk Label error. It will not even let me boot the system with this disk in. Your help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks Jay
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Response Number 7
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Name: Nathan Nieblas
Date: August 22, 2001 at 14:10:57 Pacific
Subject: Bad Magic Number in Disk Label
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Reply: (edit)i am getting this error after i installed linux (debian 2.2) on my sparcstation 20, nothing else changed besides the OS. no idea on how to fix.
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Response Number 8
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Name: Suresh Babu
Date: August 28, 2001 at 02:01:21 Pacific
Subject: Bad Magic Number in Disk Label
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Reply: (edit)I am having the same problem.
Even I am unable to install OS in that disk.
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Response Number 9
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Name: lorri
Date: November 9, 2001 at 09:27:24 Pacific
Subject: Bad Magic Number in Disk Label
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Reply: (edit)same problem..
fsck didn't fix the problem,
any other suggestions?
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Response Number 10
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Name: Ufuk Kayserilioglu
Date: November 27, 2001 at 09:16:53 Pacific
Subject: Bad Magic Number in Disk Label
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Reply: (edit)Try booting into single-user mode with the CD-ROM as described above. Then type format this should as you to select a disk. Do that and then give the disk a volume label with the volume command. That did the trick for me.. If not try fooling around with other things in the format menu. Good luck.
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Response Number 11
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Name: Tsuyoshi Kitagawa
Date: December 20, 2001 at 23:11:07 Pacific
Subject: Bad Magic Number in Disk Label
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Reply: (edit)All,
I have an UltraSparc2 which has Solaris 2.6 installed, and has been running quite happily.
I recently replaced boot disks(Seagate/ST32171WC 2.1GB) to (Seagate/ST31837LC 18.4GB). After rebooted system,I got follow messages, Bad Magic Number in Disk Label
Can't open disk label package
Boot device: net File and args:
Timeout waiting for ARP/RARP packet It doesn't any make sence to me...
Any help is greately appreciated. Tsuyoshi Kitagawa
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Response Number 12
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Name: The Dave
Date: April 6, 2002 at 20:25:12 Pacific
Subject: Bad Magic Number in Disk Label |
Reply: (edit)Boot to cdrom (linux boot install cd) I used latest SuSE. chose rescue. fdisk /dev/sda. (going by memory now so ??) m ( for menu ) p (for list partions) d (delete partion) 1 (partion #) d 2 d 3 ... s (create sun volume) w ( write/save ) reboot. And as they say at SuSE Have a lot of fun......
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