From owner-freebsd-questions Sun May 14 21:24: 5 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from freebie.lemis.com (freebie.lemis.com [192.109.197.137]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E60AE37B637 for ; Sun, 14 May 2000 21:23:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@freebie.lemis.com) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.9.3/8.9.0) id NAA01701; Mon, 15 May 2000 13:53:39 +0930 (CST) Date: Mon, 15 May 2000 13:53:39 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: Kevin Bailey Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: No disks found ? Message-ID: <20000515135339.F541@freebie.lemis.com> References: <391F79E3.33462B64@earthlink.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0pre2i In-Reply-To: <391F79E3.33462B64@earthlink.net> Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sunday, 14 May 2000 at 21:15:31 -0700, Kevin Bailey wrote: > I'm trying to re-arrange a secondary SCSI disk so that instead of > one big file system, it has a swap partition as well. Unfortunately > in nearly every menu in sysinstall, it says 'No disks found!' > I'm totally at a loss as to why this is happening. I assume there's > a missing node in /dev but 'disklabel' has no trouble seeing the > drive: > > root ~> disklabel da1 > # /dev/rda1c: > ... > 8 partitions: > # size offset fstype [fsize bsize bps/cpg] > c: 8899737 0 unused 0 0 # (Cyl. 0 - 844*) > e: 8899737 0 4.2BSD 1024 8192 16 # (Cyl. 0 - 844*) > > Here are all the da1 devices in /dev: > > root ~> ls /dev/*da1* > /dev/da1 /dev/da1f /dev/da1s4 /dev/rda1e /dev/rda1s3 > /dev/da1a /dev/da1g /dev/rda1 /dev/rda1f /dev/rda1s4 > /dev/da1b /dev/da1h /dev/rda1a /dev/rda1g > /dev/da1c /dev/da1s1 /dev/rda1b /dev/rda1h > /dev/da1d /dev/da1s2 /dev/rda1c /dev/rda1s1 > /dev/da1e /dev/da1s3 /dev/rda1d /dev/rda1s2 > > I'm open to all suggestions. In fact, I think this is a problem with /stand/sysinstall when run from a running system. I'm not sure what the issue is, but you should be able to edit the disk label with disklabel -e. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message