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Subject: Re: No disks found! - Problem with fdisk under sysinstall
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On Apr 22, 2005, at 6:07 PM, Kent Kuriyama wrote:

> Whenever I run fdisk under sysinstall I receive a "No disks found!"  
> message.
>
> When I boot from floppy or CDROM, fdisk is able to function fine.  As
> far as I can tell this problem started happening with version 5.1.  I
> have no problems with version 4.10.
>
> Any help would be greatly appreciated.  Thanks.

Do you have a secure level turned on? If it is a high level (like 2  
and 3 -- check the handbook for exact details) you cannot futz around  
with your disks and you will get that message from fdisk.

Check your rc.conf

Chad
been there, done that