sysinstall(8) && bsdlabel a new disk

[Matthias Apitz]

El día Monday, November 01, 2010 a las 10:03:58PM -0700, perryh at pluto.rain.com escribió:

> Devin Teske <dteske at 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?

My situation was in 9-CURRENT.

	matthias

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