Re: 1.8.x: fdisk and disklabel fails to operate disk SOLVED

2007-02-25 Thread Simon 'corecode' Schubert
Tero Mäntyvaara wrote: I told that the drives were da4/6, I was wrong, drives ARE ad4/6. [..] Sorry for bothering you all with nothing :-( happens to me all the time in linux with hda and sda when I instead write ad or da :) cheers simon -- Serve - BSD +++ RENT this banner advert

1.8.x: fdisk and disklabel fails to operate disk

2007-02-24 Thread Tero Mäntyvaara
Hi! I have used Linux. I managed to install 1.8.x to my system (in one drive) and it boot as I expected. I headed to make my hard drive mirrored, but both fdisk and disklabel said that both drives were not configured. :-O Tero Mäntyvaara

Re: 1.8.x: fdisk and disklabel fails to operate disk

2007-02-24 Thread Bill Hacker
Tero Mäntyvaara wrote: Hi! I have used Linux. I managed to install 1.8.x to my system (in one drive) and it boot as I expected. I headed to make my hard drive mirrored, 'Mirrored' by which means, of the several available? i.e. - are you on 'raw' ata / nata, 'psuedo-RAID' ata controller,

Re: 1.8.x: fdisk and disklabel fails to operate disk

2007-02-24 Thread Tero Mäntyvaara
Sorry that I was unpunctual with the details. After reading Bill's reply I noticed that my signature was also missing, with important hardware information... :-/ Bill Hacker wrote: Tero Mäntyvaara wrote: Hi! I have used Linux. I managed to install 1.8.x to my system (in one drive) and it

Re: 1.8.x: fdisk and disklabel fails to operate disk

2007-02-24 Thread walt
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? I have no experience

Re: 1.8.x: fdisk and disklabel fails to operate disk

2007-02-24 Thread Tero Mäntyvaara
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,