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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

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