From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Nov 2 06:04:22 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1C13D106564A for ; Tue, 2 Nov 2010 06:04:22 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from guru@unixarea.de) Received: from ms16-1.1blu.de (ms16-1.1blu.de [89.202.0.34]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CAFF28FC12 for ; Tue, 2 Nov 2010 06:04:21 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [93.104.107.250] (helo=current.Sisis.de) by ms16-1.1blu.de with esmtpsa (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PD9ya-0005un-LU; Tue, 02 Nov 2010 07:04:08 +0100 Received: from current.Sisis.de (current [127.0.0.1]) by current.Sisis.de (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id oA2649Ix001877; Tue, 2 Nov 2010 07:04:09 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from guru@unixarea.de) Received: (from guru@localhost) by current.Sisis.de (8.14.3/8.14.3/Submit) id oA2648oS001876; Tue, 2 Nov 2010 07:04:08 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from guru@unixarea.de) X-Authentication-Warning: current.Sisis.de: guru set sender to guru@unixarea.de using -f Date: Tue, 2 Nov 2010 07:04:08 +0100 From: Matthias Apitz To: perryh@pluto.rain.com Message-ID: <20101102060408.GA1860@current.Sisis.de> References: <20101031200258.GA1302@tiny.Sisis.de> <1288627455.6744.24.camel@localhost.localdomain> <4ccf9bbe.l08XJVISTgP78tSZ%perryh@pluto.rain.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <4ccf9bbe.l08XJVISTgP78tSZ%perryh@pluto.rain.com> X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 8.0-CURRENT (i386) User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.19 (2009-01-05) X-Con-Id: 51246 X-Originating-IP: 93.104.107.250 Cc: dteske@vicor.com, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: sysinstall(8) && bsdlabel a new disk X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: Matthias Apitz List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 02 Nov 2010 06:04:22 -0000 El día Monday, November 01, 2010 a las 10:03:58PM -0700, perryh@pluto.rain.com escribió: > Devin Teske wrote: > > > sysinstall probes hardware when it starts. Therefore, after making > > changes (specifically after writing) to the disk in the FDISK > > partition editor, you need to Ctrl-C and Abort-out and relaunch > > sysinstall so that it probes the new disk devices (ad4s1, ad4s2, > > etc.) before you can start adding BSD disklabels (ad4s1a, ad4s1b, > > etc.) to the slice (aka partition). > > > > This has been an age-old problem (hmmm, perhaps get could some mad > > karma for fixing it). > > At least in 8.1, there is a sysinstall operation somewhere to > re-probe devices, presumably to cover exactly this sort of > situation. Does it not work? My situation was in 9-CURRENT. matthias -- Matthias Apitz t +49-89-61308 351 - f +49-89-61308 399 - m +49-170-4527211 e - w http://www.unixarea.de/