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Subject: Re: Can't add new 1TB disk in FreeBSD 6.1
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Don O'Neil wrote:

> I just swapped out an old 500G disk with a 1TB one and I'm trying to label
> it and mount it...
> 
> If I run bsdlabel -w ad4, I get:
> 
> bsdlabel: Geom not found
> 
> If I run sysinstall, it tells me that it can't write to the disk.
> 
> I've tried an old 'bypass': sysctl kern.geom.debugflags=16, but that
> didn't help.
> 
> Can anyone help me get this new disk installed without having to boot off
> a recovery CD? The server is 500 miles away from me and I don't have
> direct console access.
> 

Uhmm... This may seem silly, but did you use fdisk to create a slice first
before you tried partitioning?

-Mike-