Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2005 22:47:25 +0100 From: Willem Jan Withagen <wjw@withagen.nl> To: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Cc: "Xi.Liu" <Xi.Liu@Leitch.com> Subject: Re: Can not create slice on a SATA drive Message-ID: <42126DED.6080501@withagen.nl> In-Reply-To: <20050215182130.GA85174@dragon.nuxi.com> References: <F5DF799F740CD611802200034722783C02549716@pelican.mars.leitch.com> <20050215182130.GA85174@dragon.nuxi.com>
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David O'Brien wrote: > On Tue, Feb 15, 2005 at 01:09:48PM -0500, Xi.Liu wrote: > >>Still not very sure, .... (I am new using FreeBSD). >>I guess even I boot singel user, the disk will still be mounted as /. > > > Correct. / will be mount read-only. > > >>Do I have to boot from a bootable-CD (say the installation CD)? > > > Nope, you can use /usr/sbin/sysinstall. > But you'll have to mount /usr (but do it read-only!) first if you didn't > combine / + /usr into a single partition. I'm always using the 'cheat' option: sysctl -w kern.geom.debugflags=16 Not shure if it is without ill effects. --WjW
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