From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Jul 23 02:50:03 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id CAA18193 for freebsd-stable-outgoing; Thu, 23 Jul 1998 02:50:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from relay.nuxi.com (nuxi.cs.ucdavis.edu [128.120.56.38]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id CAA18144 for ; Thu, 23 Jul 1998 02:49:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from obrien@NUXI.com) Received: (from obrien@localhost) by relay.nuxi.com (8.8.7/8.6.12) id JAA12839; Thu, 23 Jul 1998 09:49:37 GMT Message-ID: <19980723024936.A12762@nuxi.com> Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1998 02:49:36 -0700 From: "David O'Brien" To: John Saunders , FreeBSD stable Subject: Re: Kernel panic when disklabelling from sysinstall Reply-To: obrien@NUXI.com References: <074201bdaadb$21d1f6d0$6cb611cb@saruman.scitec.com.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.91.1i In-Reply-To: <074201bdaadb$21d1f6d0$6cb611cb@saruman.scitec.com.au>; from John Saunders on Thu, Jul 09, 1998 at 11:44:35AM +1000 X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 2.2.5-STABLE Organization: The NUXI BSD group X-PGP-Fingerprint: B7 4D 3E E9 11 39 5F A3 90 76 5D 69 58 D9 98 7A X-Pgp-Keyid: 34F9F9D5 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG If nobody has responded to this yet... > How do people normally add new disks to a FreeBSD system? See my additions to the Handbook on "Adding Disks". > Given that /stand/sysinstall causes a kernel panic during the newfs > process. It does????? > When I tried to manually run disklabel I got all sorts of errors Did you use ``disklabel -Brw wd1'' (or what ever disk device is approapiate?) You should zero out the 1st few sectors of the disk first. The full list of commands to run is in the Handbook. -- -- David (obrien@NUXI.ucdavis.edu -or- obrien@FreeBSD.org) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message