Can't make "label" for a new HDD

NiC nic at x-zone.lv
Sat Jul 12 08:43:07 PDT 2003


Sorry, did not work :(

Nikolay



----- Original Message -----
From: "Laszlo Vagner" <george at vagner.com>
To: "NiC" <nic at x-zone.lv>
Cc: <freebsd-questions at freebsd.org>
Sent: Saturday, July 12, 2003 6:31 PM
Subject: Re: Can't make "label" for a new HDD


> NiC wrote:
>
> >Hi all!
> >
> >Have trouble - new computer, must be FreeBSD4.8
> >2 HDDs - first is 20Gb, second 200Gb
> >
> >When installing - all ok.
> >
> >After rebooting tried to do through /stand/sysinstall -> Fdisk ->
selecting 200Gb HDD ->a->w->q
> >
> >Then "Label" menu->c->selecting maximum volume->selecting mount point
"/base->w->shows the error "Error mounting /dev/ad2s1e on /base : Device not
configured"
> >
> >What I'm doing wrong?
> >
> >Please help.
> >
> >Regards,
> >Nikolay
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> one thing i noticed was that after you create a partition (fdisk) the
drive
> you have to reboot (power off) for the drive to reread the new partition
> and then the disklabel will work. Maybe it is because when freebsd boots
> up it didnt see
> a valid partition on the drive so it was not configured at boot time.
>
>




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