Date: Thu, 17 Sep 1998 14:27:06 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu> To: Ben Pepa <bpepa@msn.bc.ca> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: newfs'ing a new disk Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.03.9809171426150.2759-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu> In-Reply-To: <3.0.5.32.19980917073055.00a4c250@msn.bc.ca>
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On Thu, 17 Sep 1998, Ben Pepa wrote: > Hi; > > I have been trying to get my two 9GB Seagate Barracuda (ST19171W) drives to > work with FreeBSD with no success. I first fdisk'ed them and made a > FreeBSD slice. But, when I go to Disklabel, and label each partition (/, > /usr, /var, and swap) and write changes, it says it is newfs'ing my disk > for /dev/sd0s1a and then sysinstall dies and gives me this message: > > panic: ufs_lock: recursive lock not expected, pid 276 > syncing disks... 7 6 Done > Automatic reboot in 15 seconds - press a key to abort You mounted over your existing filesystems with the newly created blank ones. You should have specified bogus mountpoints so you don't shoot yourself in the foot. Read http://www.freebsd.org/tutorials/diskformat/ for instructions. Doug White Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | www.freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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