Date: Sat, 4 Oct 2008 18:30:16 -0700 From: Jeremy Chadwick <koitsu@FreeBSD.org> To: Don O'Neil <lists@lizardhill.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Can't add new 1TB disk in FreeBSD 6.1 Message-ID: <20081005013016.GA71103@icarus.home.lan> In-Reply-To: <D3314319D28D4C51B1D721DFFE21F942@mickey> References: <D3314319D28D4C51B1D721DFFE21F942@mickey>
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On Sat, Oct 04, 2008 at 04:43:14AM -0700, 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. Can you provide output from dmesg, as well as "geom disk list"? -- | Jeremy Chadwick jdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Administrator Mountain View, CA, USA | | Making life hard for others since 1977. PGP: 4BD6C0CB |
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