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, da4 and da6 are shown during boot. > > I have no experience with dedicated drives -- are you sure > that you need one? The disklabel manpage says most newer > machines/disks should have a regular DOS partition table > first and then a disklabel on one slice. I don't know why > it says that. I was - at first - aiming to use just a part of a disk... > > Also, I seem to recall that using the -r flag with disklabel > sometimes helps on disks with no prior disklabel. > > > I thought that installer uses same tools as I in shell, so why installer managed to make disk operation (disklabeling), but I am not able to.
