From owner-freebsd-current Thu Feb 6 14: 5: 3 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EC58737B477 for ; Thu, 6 Feb 2003 14:04:58 -0800 (PST) Received: from postal3.es.net (postal3.es.net [198.128.3.207]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3A1FF43F85 for ; Thu, 6 Feb 2003 14:04:58 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from oberman@es.net) Received: from ptavv.es.net ([198.128.4.29]) by postal3.es.net (Postal Node 3) with ESMTP id MUA74016; Thu, 06 Feb 2003 14:04:57 -0800 Received: from ptavv (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ptavv.es.net (Tachyon Server) with ESMTP id 211455D06; Thu, 6 Feb 2003 14:04:57 -0800 (PST) To: Craig Rodrigues Cc: Andy Farkas , freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG, Murat Bicer Subject: Re: sysinstall->Configure->Fdisk In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 06 Feb 2003 16:50:51 EST." <20030206215051.GA87086@attbi.com> Date: Thu, 06 Feb 2003 14:04:57 -0800 From: "Kevin Oberman" Message-Id: <20030206220457.211455D06@ptavv.es.net> Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Date: Thu, 6 Feb 2003 16:50:51 -0500 > From: Craig Rodrigues > Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG > > On Tue, Feb 04, 2003 at 05:16:22PM +1000, Andy Farkas wrote: > > > > sysinstall's 'FDISK Partition Editor' won't let me create a second slice. > > > > After pressing 'w' it says: "ERROR: Unable to write data to disk ad4!" then > > "Disk partition write returned an error status!" > > > > Freshly cvsup'd a few hours ago. > > > > # sysctl -a | grep kern.version > > kern.version: FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT #2: Tue Feb 4 11:04:44 EST 2003 > > > This is a known problem due to GEOM. It doesn't matter if you are root, > or if your securelevel is set properly. It just won't work. > > See the thread: > http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=295042+0+archive/2002/freebsd-current/20021229.freebsd-current > > Try to boot from another disk or a floppy, then you will be able to > create a new partition with sysinstall. This is what the second ISO image is for. It contains the holographic shell and is sometimes called the "fixit" disk. Boot it select Fixit. Then follow the instructions. Or, if you just want to partition, use the "Configure" option and select Fdisk. (For this, you don't even need the Fixit disk. The main OS disk can do this.) R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) E-mail: oberman@es.net Phone: +1 510 486-8634 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message