Date: Sat, 28 Nov 2009 23:12:07 GMT From: gavin@FreeBSD.org To: kostas_q3a@yahoo.com, gavin@FreeBSD.org, freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org, gavin@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: bin/140900: [geom_part] sysinstall(8) problems: "unable to make device node" Message-ID: <200911282312.nASNC7DT003203@freefall.freebsd.org>
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Old Synopsis: sysinstall(8) problems: "unable to make device node" New Synopsis: [geom_part] sysinstall(8) problems: "unable to make device node" State-Changed-From-To: open->feedback State-Changed-By: gavin State-Changed-When: Sat Nov 28 23:04:35 UTC 2009 State-Changed-Why: To submitter: This is caused because in some cases, in the past sysinstall created faulty partition tables. Under 7.x and before these were not an issue, but now under 8.x these break things. The following workaround should fix things where you have disks showing this problem (either from the existing OS install, or using the LiveFS CD): dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/ad0 oseek=1 bs=512 count=1 (replacing /dev/ad0 with whichever disk has the problem). Can you confirm that this fixes things for you please? Responsible-Changed-From-To: freebsd-bugs->gavin Responsible-Changed-By: gavin Responsible-Changed-When: Sat Nov 28 23:04:35 UTC 2009 Responsible-Changed-Why: Track http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=140900
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