Date: Sat, 04 Oct 2008 09:52:43 -0400 From: Michael Powell <nightrecon@verizon.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Can't add new 1TB disk in FreeBSD 6.1 Message-ID: <gc7s7u$kba$1@ger.gmane.org> References: <D3314319D28D4C51B1D721DFFE21F942@mickey>
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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. > Uhmm... This may seem silly, but did you use fdisk to create a slice first before you tried partitioning? -Mike-
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