Subject: Re: "Invalid Partition Table"
To: Bruce Lane <kyrrin@bluefeathertech.com>
From: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.lip6.fr>
List: port-i386
Date: 06/20/2001 18:07:22
On Tue, Jun 19, 2001 at 10:45:50PM -0700, Bruce Lane wrote:
> 	Ok... Just replaced the SMART-2/E EISA raid board with a Compaq SMART-2/P
> (PCI-based) raid board, and successfully installed the 'release' version of
> 1.5.
> 
> 	Or so I thought. When it tried to boot, I got 'Invalid Partition Table.'
> 
> 	What the fsck is that all about?
> 
> 	Could it be the fact that the array is a 16GB RAID-5? Is the install
> partition Just Too Big?

No, this is usually just a geometry problem.
Boot from floppy, blanck the disk
dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/rwd0d bs=64 count=1000
(remplace wd0 with the real name of your raid under NetBSD) and reinstall.

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Manuel Bouyer, LIP6, Universite Paris VI.           Manuel.Bouyer@lip6.fr
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