[rescue] Now Bad magic number was Re: 18 gigers in an Ultra 2? Ultra 1 ????

Patrick Giagnocavo patrick at mail.zill.net
Thu Jun 2 13:15:26 CDT 2005


On Thu, Jun 02, 2005 at 11:00:48AM -0700, Paxton wrote:
> Well I put them in the U2 and they say:
> 
> Bad Magic number in Disk label, Can't open disk label package.
> 
> This happens with both. Then it looks for a network logon.

It can't boot from the drive, so it tries to boot from the network,
which is standard behavior for Suns.

You need to format the drive, even on another machine, so that the Sun
box can work with it.

--Patrick



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