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

[Brian Howe]

Worst case scenario if you do not have an option to either
format/label the drive in the box it is in, and/or you have no other
Sun box to do said operation in, you can use a linux box to format it
with the UFS file system and give it a Sun disk label.  It is a fairly
easy way to do it in an emergency (personal experience).

On 6/2/05, Patrick Giagnocavo <patrick at mail.zill.net> wrote:
> 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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