Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2005 13:09:48 -0500 From: "Xi.Liu" <Xi.Liu@Leitch.com> To: "'freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org'" <freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org> Subject: RE: Can not create slice on a SATA drive Message-ID: <F5DF799F740CD611802200034722783C02549716@pelican.mars.leitch.com>
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Thanks! Still not very sure, .... (I am new using FreeBSD). I guess even I boot singel user, the disk will still be mounted as /. Do I have to boot from a bootable-CD (say the installation CD)? Xi -----Original Message----- From: David O'Brien [mailto:obrien@freebsd.org] Sent: Tuesday, February 15, 2005 1:03 PM To: Xi.Liu Cc: 'freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org' Subject: Re: Can not create slice on a SATA drive On Tue, Feb 15, 2005 at 12:47:13PM -0500, Xi.Liu wrote: > I have Dell power edge S420 with only one SATA harddrive running FreeBSD > 5.3-RELEASE for AMD64 platform and the system is running fine. .. > I am trying to create a slice to use the all the rest unused disk space, but > some how I can save the changes using "sysinstall" > (see error messages below) .. > ??ERROR: Unable to write data to disk ad4! ?k Boot single user and try to create the partition. GEOM won't allow writes to a disk after it has been mounted. -- -- David (obrien@FreeBSD.org)
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