sysctl kern.geom.debugflags ERROR when using Sysinstall to format HD (FreeBsd 7.2 STABLE)

2009-09-29 Thread Jeronimo Calvo 
Hi folks!!

Trying to create a new Ufs on a HD using sysinstall. im getting the
following error:

ERROR: Unable to write data to disk ad10!  │
   │   │
   │To edit the labels on a running system set │
   │sysctl kern.geom.debugflags=16 and try again


any ideas?

Cheers!
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Re: sysctl kern.geom.debugflags ERROR when using Sysinstall to format HD (FreeBsd 7.2 STABLE)

2009-09-29 Thread Matthew Seaman 

Jeronimo Calvo wrote:

Hi folks!!

Trying to create a new Ufs on a HD using sysinstall. im getting the
following error:

ERROR: Unable to write data to disk ad10!  │
   │   │
   │To edit the labels on a running system set │
   │sysctl kern.geom.debugflags=16 and try again


any ideas?



At a guess, I'd say you need to set

 sysctl kern.geom.debugflags=16

and try again...

Matthew

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