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bad magic number......
Name: Josh Collins Date: February 26, 2001 at 09:40:21 Pacific
Comment:
i seem to be having the same problem as paul did with the bad magic numbers but i also get the same error when i try to boot from my cdrom(external scsi) anyway solaris newbie here so any help would be apriciated
Name: oliver Date: February 26, 2001 at 10:19:53 Pacific
Reply:
What hardware do you have? T1, U2, Sparc 20, etc? What peripherals are usually attached? Sounds like the problem with termination or the system board.
Did you add any hardware before the problem?
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Response Number 2
Name: jeremiah Date: October 5, 2001 at 21:36:45 Pacific
Reply:
I'm having a hard time setting up a new install of solaris 8 on an ultra 1 creator with a barracuda ST19171WC. During the install I get a bad magic number on the hard disk and it kicks me out to a root# I'm not fimiliar with setting up a new harddrive on a sun system if anyone can help me with a detailed setup it would be greatly appreciated. I'm not fimiliar with the format command at all and if this is what I need to learn any help would be great. Email me if you like as I rarely frequent this site. Thanks Jeremiah
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