Date: Sun, 19 Dec 1999 10:21:22 -0800 From: Mike Smith <msmith@freebsd.org> To: Andreas Braukmann <braukmann@tse-online.de> Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: No disks found msg in /stand/sysinstall, how come? Message-ID: <199912191821.KAA02815@mass.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 19 Dec 1999 12:19:52 %2B0100." <19991219121952.C15806@cage.tse-online.de>
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> > > ... just after having the standard disklabel -rw ad0 auto (my boot disk is > > > da0) complained about 'no space left on device'. Yes, ... I did the > > > disklabel -W ad0 ... > > > You forgot to overwrite the beginning of the disk. > > ... and yes I did (before doing the 'fdisk') a nice little > dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/rad0 count=10000 > > Do you have any further hints? dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/ad0 count=16 disklabel -rwB ad0 auto works. At some point you deviated from this. -- \\ Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. \\ Mike Smith \\ Tell him he should learn how to fish himself, \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ and he'll hate you for a lifetime. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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