From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jan 18 7:59:44 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B195637B401 for ; Sat, 18 Jan 2003 07:59:43 -0800 (PST) Received: from sccrmhc03.attbi.com (sccrmhc03.attbi.com [204.127.202.63]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 93CDF43F1E for ; Sat, 18 Jan 2003 07:59:42 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from swear@attbi.com) Received: from localhost.localdomain ([12.242.158.67]) by sccrmhc03.attbi.com (sccrmhc03) with ESMTP id <20030118155941003005vggqe>; Sat, 18 Jan 2003 15:59:41 +0000 Received: from localhost.localdomain (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by localhost.localdomain (8.12.6/8.12.5) with ESMTP id h0IFwPm9061899; Sat, 18 Jan 2003 07:58:26 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from swear@attbi.com) Received: (from jojo@localhost) by localhost.localdomain (8.12.6/8.12.5/Submit) id h0IFwJwH061894; Sat, 18 Jan 2003 07:58:19 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from swear@attbi.com) X-Authentication-Warning: localhost.localdomain: jojo set sender to swear@attbi.com using -f To: Brian Astill Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Larger Hard Drive References: <3E28E47A.9080706@adam.com.au> From: swear@attbi.com (Gary W. Swearingen) Date: 18 Jan 2003 07:58:19 -0800 In-Reply-To: <3E28E47A.9080706@adam.com.au> Message-ID: <3a1y3asb50.y3a@localhost.localdomain> Lines: 19 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) XEmacs/21.1 (Cuyahoga Valley) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Brian Astill writes: > root@BAPhD ~ #fdisk -BI ad2 > ******* Working on device /dev/ad2 ******* > root@BAPhD ~ #Jan 18 15:21:19 BAPhD /kernel: ad2: cannot find label (no > disk label) > > Jan 18 15:21:19 BAPhD /kernel: ad2s1: cannot find label (no disk label) I was playing with fdisk/disklabel yesterday, and there's some strange stuff going on there, like maybe the disk driver gets confused. Anyway, there's a good chance you can solve you problem by following the steps which have been (mis) placed in the disklabel(8) manpage near the words "Completely wipe any prior information on the disk". Beware that "fdisk -BI" doesn't necessarily write boot blocks, that "fdisk -I" might write them, and both sometimes ignore answers to their prompts about whether to write them. Go figure. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message