Devin Teske <dte...@vicor.com> wrote: > sysinstall probes hardware when it starts. Therefore, after making > changes (specifically after writing) to the disk in the FDISK > partition editor, you need to Ctrl-C and Abort-out and relaunch > sysinstall so that it probes the new disk devices (ad4s1, ad4s2, > etc.) before you can start adding BSD disklabels (ad4s1a, ad4s1b, > etc.) to the slice (aka partition). > > This has been an age-old problem (hmmm, perhaps get could some mad > karma for fixing it).
At least in 8.1, there is a sysinstall operation somewhere to re-probe devices, presumably to cover exactly this sort of situation. Does it not work? _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
