From owner-freebsd-current Mon Feb 3 23:16:34 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8CD0137B401 for ; Mon, 3 Feb 2003 23:16:32 -0800 (PST) Received: from franky.speednet.com.au (franky.speednet.com.au [203.57.65.5]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6A89C43F75 for ; Mon, 3 Feb 2003 23:16:31 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from andyf@speednet.com.au) Received: from hewey.af.speednet.com.au (hewey.af.speednet.com.au [203.38.96.242]) by franky.speednet.com.au (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id h147GO6e035011 for ; Tue, 4 Feb 2003 18:16:24 +1100 (EST) (envelope-from andyf@speednet.com.au) Received: from hewey.af.speednet.com.au (hewey.af.speednet.com.au [172.22.2.1]) by hewey.af.speednet.com.au (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id h147GMnb051550 for ; Tue, 4 Feb 2003 17:16:23 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from andyf@speednet.com.au) Date: Tue, 4 Feb 2003 17:16:22 +1000 (EST) From: Andy Farkas X-X-Sender: andyf@hewey.af.speednet.com.au To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: sysinstall->Configure->Fdisk Message-ID: <20030204170512.R31941-100000@hewey.af.speednet.com.au> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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: The data for partition 3 is: The data for partition 4 is: -- :{ andyf@speednet.com.au Andy Farkas System Administrator Speednet Communications http://www.speednet.com.au/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message