From owner-freebsd-amd64@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Feb 15 23:50:24 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 73C0D16A4D6 for ; Tue, 15 Feb 2005 23:50:24 +0000 (GMT) Received: from dragon.nuxi.com (trang.nuxi.com [66.93.134.19]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2F19143D60 for ; Tue, 15 Feb 2005 23:50:16 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from obrien@NUXI.com) Received: from dragon.nuxi.com (obrien@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dragon.nuxi.com (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id j1FNoFXC097384; Tue, 15 Feb 2005 15:50:15 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from obrien@dragon.nuxi.com) Received: (from obrien@localhost) by dragon.nuxi.com (8.13.1/8.13.1/Submit) id j1FNoECM097382; Tue, 15 Feb 2005 15:50:14 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from obrien) Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2005 15:50:14 -0800 From: "David O'Brien" To: Willem Jan Withagen Message-ID: <20050215235014.GB96584@dragon.nuxi.com> References: <20050215182130.GA85174@dragon.nuxi.com> <42126DED.6080501@withagen.nl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <42126DED.6080501@withagen.nl> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 6.0-CURRENT Organization: The NUXI BSD Group X-Pgp-Rsa-Fingerprint: B7 4D 3E E9 11 39 5F A3 90 76 5D 69 58 D9 98 7A X-Pgp-Rsa-Keyid: 1024/34F9F9D5 cc: "Xi.Liu" cc: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Can not create slice on a SATA drive X-BeenThere: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: obrien@freebsd.org List-Id: Porting FreeBSD to the AMD64 platform List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2005 23:50:24 -0000 On Tue, Feb 15, 2005 at 10:47:25PM +0100, Willem Jan Withagen wrote: > 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. It allows total foot shooting and is quite dangerous. It is 'rm -rf' where the default FS to rm is / Booting single user is what most people should be doing for now. Especially someone "I am new using FreeBSD". -- -- David (obrien@FreeBSD.org)