From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Jun 6 12:36:42 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from resnet.uoregon.edu (resnet.uoregon.edu [128.223.122.47]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3619937B40C for ; Thu, 6 Jun 2002 12:36:30 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by resnet.uoregon.edu (8.11.3/8.10.1) with ESMTP id g56JaPR56528; Thu, 6 Jun 2002 12:36:25 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 6 Jun 2002 12:36:24 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White To: Aggelos Economopoulos Cc: freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Cannot access disk In-Reply-To: <200206060907.02295.aoiko@cc.ece.ntua.gr> Message-ID: <20020606123539.K55995-100000@resnet.uoregon.edu> X-All-Your-Base: are belong to us MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, 6 Jun 2002, Aggelos Economopoulos wrote: > After adding a 40G ide disk(ad3) on my system, I 'ld like to devote some > extra space to FreeBSD (there is already a linux installation on the 40G > disk). However, after booting my -stable installation on the first > disk(ad0), I get the error message "excessive recursion in search for > slices" by the kernel on any attempt to access ad3 (mount a partition, > fdisk -s /dev/ad3, or even a read() on ad3). Try zeroing off the beginning of the disk with dd; maybe there's a corrupt partition table there. 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-hackers" in the body of the message