From owner-freebsd-small Thu Jan 25 9:30:45 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-small@freebsd.org Received: from resnet.uoregon.edu (resnet.uoregon.edu [128.223.122.47]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0DA0737B698 for ; Thu, 25 Jan 2001 09:30:29 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by resnet.uoregon.edu (8.10.1/8.10.1) with ESMTP id f0PHUPW50307; Thu, 25 Jan 2001 09:30:25 -0800 (PST) Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2001 09:30:25 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White To: Frank Volf Cc: freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Picobsd and disklabel of a SCSI disk [repost] In-Reply-To: <20010125100216.E22984216@drawbridge.oasis.IAEhv.nl> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 25 Jan 2001, Frank Volf wrote: > # disklabel -w -B da0s1 auto > disklabel: ioctl DIOCGDINFO: Invalid argument > disklabel: auto: unknown disk type > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > This is where it fails. 'auto' has always been a bit wonky. See my disk formatting tutorial and/or the Handbook for an alternate method. Doug White | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | www.FreeBSD.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-small" in the body of the message