Problem formatting new hard drive.

[James Pancoast]

kern_securelevel="2"
kern_securelevel_enable="YES"

	Is that it?

On Monday 21 April 2003 14:17, Elliot Finley wrote:
> What is your securitylevel set to in rc.conf?
>
> Elliot
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "James Pancoast" <jamesp at uversa.com>
> To: <freebsd-questions at freebsd.org>
> Sent: Monday, April 21, 2003 12:11 PM
> Subject: Problem formatting new hard drive.
>
> > I'm new to FreeBSD (I installed it on a system this weekend).  I've been
> > trying to add a new Hard drive, following the directions at:
>
> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/articles/formatting-media/x66.ht
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>
> > Going through sysinstall didn't work, so I tried the command line
> > (dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/ad2 count=2).  However, when I run that command
>
> (as
>
> > root), I get "Operation not permitted".  Anyone have an idea what I'm
>
> doing
>
> > wrong?
> >
> > The drive used to be in a Linux system, and an fdisk /dev/ad2 gives this:
> > ******* Working on device /dev/ad2 *******
> > parameters extracted from in-core disklabel are:
> > cylinders=25232 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=25232 heads=16 sectors/track=63 (1008 blks/cyl)
> >
> > 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 131 (0x83),(Linux native)
> >     start 63, size 25433793 (12418 Meg), flag 0
> >         beg: cyl 0/ head 1/ sector 1;
> >         end: cyl 1023/ 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>
> >
> > Thanks.
> >
> >
> > --
> > James Pancoast
> > jamesp at uversa.com
> > www.uversa.com
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-- 
James Pancoast
jamesp at uversa.com
www.uversa.com