From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Oct 5 01:30:19 2008 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 9358F106568E for ; Sun, 5 Oct 2008 01:30:19 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jdc@koitsu.dyndns.org) Received: from QMTA04.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net (qmta04.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net [76.96.62.40]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3E82B8FC1E for ; Sun, 5 Oct 2008 01:30:18 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jdc@koitsu.dyndns.org) Received: from OMTA06.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net ([76.96.62.51]) by QMTA04.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net with comcast id Nmvo1a00P16LCl054pWJFi; Sun, 05 Oct 2008 01:30:18 +0000 Received: from koitsu.dyndns.org ([69.181.141.110]) by OMTA06.westchester.pa.mail.comcast.net with comcast id NpWG1a00B2P6wsM3SpWGwk; Sun, 05 Oct 2008 01:30:17 +0000 X-Authority-Analysis: v=1.0 c=1 a=Kr3t3Te1lQgA:10 a=GofcrYdnE60A:10 a=QycZ5dHgAAAA:8 a=MOZZ0Ed4Hhrt8Do96DQA:9 a=skdDIm4j8oUK0t3ncXechcFGXvcA:4 a=EoioJ0NPDVgA:10 a=LY0hPdMaydYA:10 Received: by icarus.home.lan (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 1EDDCC9419; Sat, 4 Oct 2008 18:30:16 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sat, 4 Oct 2008 18:30:16 -0700 From: Jeremy Chadwick To: Don O'Neil Message-ID: <20081005013016.GA71103@icarus.home.lan> References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Can't add new 1TB disk in FreeBSD 6.1 X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 05 Oct 2008 01:30:19 -0000 On Sat, Oct 04, 2008 at 04:43:14AM -0700, Don O'Neil wrote: > I just swapped out an old 500G disk with a 1TB one and I'm trying to label > it and mount it... > > If I run bsdlabel -w ad4, I get: > > bsdlabel: Geom not found > > If I run sysinstall, it tells me that it can't write to the disk. > > I've tried an old 'bypass': sysctl kern.geom.debugflags=16, but that didn't > help. > > Can anyone help me get this new disk installed without having to boot off a > recovery CD? The server is 500 miles away from me and I don't have direct > console access. Can you provide output from dmesg, as well as "geom disk list"? -- | Jeremy Chadwick jdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Administrator Mountain View, CA, USA | | Making life hard for others since 1977. PGP: 4BD6C0CB |