Re: Problem running fdisk via sysinstall

2010-06-24 Thread Mark Costlow
On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 11:17:50PM -0500, Adam Vande More wrote: > >On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 6:28 PM, Mark Costlow <[1]che...@swcp.com> >wrote: > > I hope this question isn't too stupid. > Any hints or clue-by-fours? > >What's the ou

Re: Problem running fdisk via sysinstall

2010-06-24 Thread Mark Costlow
Nick, that worked! I zero'd the whole disk, then everything worked like normal. Thanks, Mark On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 07:15:13PM -0600, Mark Costlow wrote: > Since I don't have any other ideas yet, I'll give that a try. I'll > let you know if it works tomorrow

Re: Problem running fdisk via sysinstall

2010-06-23 Thread Mark Costlow
uld be to use dd to write >zeros to the entire drive (da1). >Hope this helps, >Nick >On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 7:28 PM, Mark Costlow <[1]che...@swcp.com> >wrote: > > I hope this question isn't too stupid. > I have a machine with a 3Ware

Problem running fdisk via sysinstall

2010-06-23 Thread Mark Costlow
;m usually using fresh new disks so maybe it matters. I've googled this issue and found several people reporting similar symptoms over the years, but haven't found any posted solutions aside from telling people to read geom(8). Any hints or clue-by-fours? Mark -- Mark Costlow|