From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Jul 28 04:45:10 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 419F716A4EE for ; Fri, 28 Jul 2006 04:45:10 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from chad@shire.net) Received: from hobbiton.shire.net (mail.shire.net [166.70.252.250]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9427043D5E for ; Fri, 28 Jul 2006 04:45:08 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from chad@shire.net) Received: from [67.171.127.191] (helo=[192.168.99.68]) by hobbiton.shire.net with esmtpa (Exim 4.51) id 1G6KDk-000GeD-1g; Thu, 27 Jul 2006 22:45:08 -0600 In-Reply-To: <200607280440.k6S4etH3073211@manor.msen.com> References: <200607280440.k6S4etH3073211@manor.msen.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v752.2) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Message-Id: Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: "Chad Leigh -- Shire.Net LLC" Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2006 22:45:07 -0600 To: Michael R. Wayne X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.752.2) X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: 67.171.127.191 X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: chad@shire.net X-SA-Exim-Scanned: No (on hobbiton.shire.net); SAEximRunCond expanded to false Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Can not add partitions to existing 3ware RAID? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 28 Jul 2006 04:45:10 -0000 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