1.8.x: fdisk and disklabel fails to operate disk
Tero Mäntyvaara
termant at gmail.com
Sat Feb 24 19:18:59 PST 2007
walt wrote:
> Tero Mäntyvaara wrote:
> ...
>> fdisk -BI da6 (system disk is da4)
>>
>> but then I get that message that drive is not configured. :-/
>> I get same result if I use disklabel to "dedicate" drive
>
> Random ideas: do you actually have a /dev/da6? Does dmesg
> show a da6 during boot?
Yes, da4 and da6 are shown during boot.
>
> I have no experience with dedicated drives -- are you sure
> that you need one? The disklabel manpage says most newer
> machines/disks should have a regular DOS partition table
> first and then a disklabel on one slice. I don't know why
> it says that.
I was - at first - aiming to use just a part of a disk...
>
> Also, I seem to recall that using the -r flag with disklabel
> sometimes helps on disks with no prior disklabel.
>
>
>
I thought that installer uses same tools as I in shell, so why installer
managed to make disk operation (disklabeling), but I am not able to.
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