On Tue, 19 Jan 1999, Jukka Marin wrote:
>Argh.  Now disklabel gives me the error even when total disk size is
>below 2 GB:
>
>disklabel: ioctl DIOCWDINFO: Label magic number or checksum is wrong!
>
>WHAT am I doing wrong??
>
>Six hours labeling one stupid disk.. no ideas left :-(

  I've lost a lot of time on this in the past too...To keep labels compatible
with SunOS, partitions offsets and sizes must be on cylinder boundaries.  I'll
bet that's what's going on.

  I hope this helps...

              -Dave McGuire