Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2006 22:45:07 -0600 From: "Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC" <chad@shire.net> To: Michael R. Wayne <wayne@staff.msen.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Can not add partitions to existing 3ware RAID? Message-ID: <B7A08A3E-1A4B-45A7-BEBB-4196068F149A@shire.net> In-Reply-To: <200607280440.k6S4etH3073211@manor.msen.com> References: <200607280440.k6S4etH3073211@manor.msen.com>
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On Jul 27, 2006, at 10:40 PM, Michael R. Wayne wrote: > > Tonite I was going to allocate some more disk space to a 6.1 RELEASE > system. I did it the same way I've done it for years: I went into > sysinstall, selected > Custom->Partition > and added a new partition (twed0s3) using some of the remaining > space. I then moved up to twed0s1 and did an "S" because > sysinstall never remembers that the first slice was bootable and > not doing this leaves one with an unbootable system. > > I then do a "W" to write out this information, say "Yes" to the > warning since I am modifying an existing system and select the > Standard Boot Manager. Instead of the normal response, I get > ERROR: Unable to write data to disk twed0! > and > Disk partition write returned an error status! > which is most disconcerting. > > No messages in the logs or on the (serial) console. Checking > sysinstall again, the disk remains unchanged. > > Has something recently changed in this process? > Do you have a securelevel set in rc.conf kern_securelevel_enable="YES" kern_securelevel="1" where the number is > 0 ???? This will cause the effect you state. Chad --- Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC Your Web App and Email hosting provider chad at shire.net
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