On Thu, 6 Jun 2002, Aggelos Economopoulos wrote: > After adding a 40G ide disk(ad3) on my system, I 'ld like to devote some > extra space to FreeBSD (there is already a linux installation on the 40G > disk). However, after booting my -stable installation on the first > disk(ad0), I get the error message "excessive recursion in search for > slices" by the kernel on any attempt to access ad3 (mount a partition, > fdisk -s /dev/ad3, or even a read() on ad3).
Try zeroing off the beginning of the disk with dd; maybe there's a corrupt partition table there. Doug White | FreeBSD: The Power to Serve [EMAIL PROTECTED] | www.FreeBSD.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
