> 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"?
OK... I tried: # dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/ad4 bs=512 count=1000 dd: /dev/ad4: Operation not permitted # fdisk /dev/ad4 ******* Working on device /dev/ad4 ******* parameters extracted from in-core disklabel are: cylinders=1938021 heads=16 sectors/track=63 (1008 blks/cyl) Figures below won't work with BIOS for partitions not in cyl 1 parameters to be used for BIOS calculations are: cylinders=1938021 heads=16 sectors/track=63 (1008 blks/cyl) fdisk: invalid fdisk partition table found Media sector size is 512 Warning: BIOS sector numbering starts with sector 1 Information from DOS bootblock is: The data for partition 1 is: sysid 165 (0xa5),(FreeBSD/NetBSD/386BSD) start 63, size 1953525105 (953869 Meg), flag 80 (active) beg: cyl 0/ head 1/ sector 1; end: cyl 612/ head 15/ sector 63 The data for partition 2 is: <UNUSED> The data for partition 3 is: <UNUSED> The data for partition 4 is: <UNUSED> Geometry output: Geom name: ad4 Providers: 1. Name: ad4 Mediasize: 1000204886016 (932G) Sectorsize: 512 Mode: r0w0e0 fwsectors: 63 fwheads: 16 Nothing exciting coming from dmesg. _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"