From owner-freebsd-current Thu Feb 6 13:50:18 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 62CAA37B401 for ; Thu, 6 Feb 2003 13:50:17 -0800 (PST) Received: from h00609772adf0.ne.client2.attbi.com (h00609772adf0.ne.client2.attbi.com [24.61.43.152]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AD96343F93 for ; Thu, 6 Feb 2003 13:50:16 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from rodrigc@attbi.com) Received: from h00609772adf0.ne.client2.attbi.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by h00609772adf0.ne.client2.attbi.com (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id h16LoqhE087136; Thu, 6 Feb 2003 16:50:52 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from rodrigc@h00609772adf0.ne.client2.attbi.com) Received: (from rodrigc@localhost) by h00609772adf0.ne.client2.attbi.com (8.12.6/8.12.6/Submit) id h16LopuR087135; Thu, 6 Feb 2003 16:50:51 -0500 (EST) Date: Thu, 6 Feb 2003 16:50:51 -0500 From: Craig Rodrigues To: Andy Farkas Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG, Murat Bicer Subject: Re: sysinstall->Configure->Fdisk Message-ID: <20030206215051.GA87086@attbi.com> References: <20030204170512.R31941-100000@hewey.af.speednet.com.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030204170512.R31941-100000@hewey.af.speednet.com.au> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i 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 On Tue, Feb 04, 2003 at 05:16:22PM +1000, Andy Farkas wrote: > > 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 This is a known problem due to GEOM. It doesn't matter if you are root, or if your securelevel is set properly. It just won't work. See the thread: http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=295042+0+archive/2002/freebsd-current/20021229.freebsd-current Try to boot from another disk or a floppy, then you will be able to create a new partition with sysinstall. -- Craig Rodrigues http://home.attbi.com/~rodrigc rodrigc@attbi.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message