Date: Thu, 6 Feb 2003 16:50:51 -0500 From: Craig Rodrigues <rodrigc@attbi.com> To: Andy Farkas <andyf@speednet.com.au> Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG, Murat Bicer <murat+freebsd@bicer.org> Subject: Re: sysinstall->Configure->Fdisk Message-ID: <20030206215051.GA87086@attbi.com> In-Reply-To: <20030204170512.R31941-100000@hewey.af.speednet.com.au> References: <20030204170512.R31941-100000@hewey.af.speednet.com.au>
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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
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