Bad magic number

#1 (**permalink**) 04-12-2006

Hi there,

I'm a newbie with Sun's environment but I'm learning.
I just get a Sun Blade 1500 out of the box and it worked fine for a few days.

Yesterday, I opened it to plug a HDD on which I wanted to take a few files and when I powered-on the station, I get the following message :

Bad magic number on disk label
Can't open disk label package

I thought the HDD might have a problem so I pluged back the originating disk (both are EIDE), and I get the same message !

I browsed a bit from google with that message and found out previous posts where people had problems with their CDROM or dead hard disks. I don't think I'm in this case because the station is brand new...

My questions are :
What does this mean ?
How can I get the station to boot again ?

Regards

RTM · #2 (**permalink**) 04-22-2006

If you have a Solaris CD, try booting from it into single user - then try mounting the hard drive (after running fsck on it). Hard to say what you did to it. Did you power off before removing/inserting the hdd? Did you ground yourself to the system?

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