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 [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
