Date: Tue, 4 Feb 2003 17:16:22 +1000 (EST) From: Andy Farkas <andyf@speednet.com.au> To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: sysinstall->Configure->Fdisk Message-ID: <20030204170512.R31941-100000@hewey.af.speednet.com.au>
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sysinstall's 'FDISK Partition Editor' won't let me create a second slice.
After pressing 'w' it says: "ERROR: Unable to write data to disk ad4!" then
"Disk partition write returned an error status!"
Freshly cvsup'd a few hours ago.
# sysctl -a | grep kern.version
kern.version: FreeBSD 5.0-CURRENT #2: Tue Feb 4 11:04:44 EST 2003
# fdisk ad4
******* Working on device ad4 *******
parameters extracted from in-core disklabel are:
cylinders=16708 heads=16 sectors/track=63 (1008 blks/cyl)
Figures below won't work with BIOS for partitions not in cyl 1
parameters to be used for BIOS calculations are:
cylinders=16708 heads=16 sectors/track=63 (1008 blks/cyl)
Media sector size is 512
Warning: BIOS sector numbering starts with sector 1
Information from DOS bootblock is:
The data for partition 1 is:
sysid 165 (0xa5),(FreeBSD/NetBSD/386BSD)
start 63, size 8388513 (4095 Meg), flag 80 (active)
beg: cyl 0/ head 1/ sector 1;
end: cyl 1023/ head 15/ sector 63
The data for partition 2 is:
<UNUSED>
The data for partition 3 is:
<UNUSED>
The data for partition 4 is:
<UNUSED>
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:{ andyf@speednet.com.au
Andy Farkas
System Administrator
Speednet Communications
http://www.speednet.com.au/
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