Thanks for your reply!
--- Leonard den Ottolander <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi David,
>
> > I don't know why I'm getting the "WARNING: bad format on line 11 of
> > /etc/fstab" during booting. The /etc/fstab is ten lines long, and
> > I opened it in emacs while in X to confirm that there is no blank
> > line at the top of the file.
>
> Maybe there is a (n invisible) control character on one of the
> lines. View in
> a hexeditor, fe midnight commander (F3 view, F4 hex, (F2 edit)). Or
> just
> recreate the file from scratch.
I decided to try moving the /solaris line to another position in
/etc/fstab to see if that would have an effect on the warning about it,
so I swapped the 10th and 7th lines in /etc/fstab. It now looks like:
/dev/sda2 / ext2 defaults 1
1
/dev/sda1 /C: vfat defaults 0
0
/dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom iso9660 noauto,owner,ro 0
0
/dev/sdc1 /syquest vfat defaults 0
0
/dev/sda5 /usr ext2 defaults 1
2
/dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy auto noauto,owner 0
0
/dev/sdb1 /solaris ufs ufstype=sunx86 0
0
none /proc proc defaults 0
0
none /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0
0
/dev/sda6 swap swap defaults 0
0
I don't know why, but the warning about /etc/fstab stopped after that.
> > "Feb 18 03:12:52 localhost kernel: ufs_read_super: bad magic
> number"
> > during boot.
>
> The filesystem you are trying to mount is a swap file, with the
> magic number
> 0x82:
>
> > Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
> > /dev/sdb1 * 1 1018 4164120 82 Linux swap
>
> So you either never set up a solaris partition on /dev/sdb1, or you
> have
> overwritten it (or at least the filesystem identifier in the
> partition table)
> with a linux swap file. If you didn't format this swap partition you
> might try
> to just toggle the filesystem identifier (man fdisk) to the correct
> one for
> the Solaris x86 filesystem. I don't know the identifier number for
> this
> filesystem.
>
>
The solaris partition entry has the same type, 82, as linux swap
partition. So the "magic number" is the same as the partition type! Now
I understand the boot message. I should have put two and two together.
But mounting, either during booting or manually after booting,
still fails in the same way:
[root@localhost /root]# mount -t ufs -o ufstype=sunx86 /dev/sdb1
/solaris
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sdb1,
or too many mounted file systems
As far as I can tell, I've followed http://www.xslt.de/sol-howto.html
but maybe I'm missing something.
David
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