Date: Mon, 15 May 2000 13:53:39 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Kevin Bailey <someone@earthlink.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: No disks found ? Message-ID: <20000515135339.F541@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <391F79E3.33462B64@earthlink.net> References: <391F79E3.33462B64@earthlink.net>
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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
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