From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jun 7 16:36:21 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.the-i-pa.com (mail.the-i-pa.com [151.201.71.132]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 39DB337B401 for ; Thu, 7 Jun 2001 16:36:18 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wmoran@iowna.com) Received: (qmail 9179 invoked from network); 7 Jun 2001 23:44:42 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO iowna.com) (151.201.71.193) by mail.the-i-pa.com with SMTP; 7 Jun 2001 23:44:42 -0000 Message-ID: <3B200F70.382D1B16@iowna.com> Date: Thu, 07 Jun 2001 19:34:08 -0400 From: Bill Moran X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.76 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 4.2-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: pjklist@ekahuna.com Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Sysinstall error adding disks.. References: <3B1FA2A7.6636.3DE404@localhost> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 Have you updated your system? The handbook recommends that you do a MAKEDEV all each time you upgrade. This is because, although the devices are already there, the OS may have changed something about them, and recreating them brings them up to date. That could be your problem. It's just as important as running mergemaster. -Bill "Philip J. Koenig" wrote: > I had the same problem recently, same error message. > > So today I went into /dev and did "sh MAKEDEV all". I had done a ls> > outputfile earlier in order to do a comparison, the ls after doing > that was *identical*, so I presume no devices were added. > > Yet today it seemed to recognize the disk OK, in fact it recognized > it so well that when I used disklabel (from sysinstall) to mistakenly > set the mountpoints on the new disk slices to where they were on the > primary disk (instead of /mnt) I lost all access to this remote > system, so I get to pay it a visit with a floppy now.. sigh. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message