From owner-freebsd-current Mon Dec 20 12:45:39 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mail1.registeredsite.com (mail1.registeredsite.com [209.35.159.6]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8CB0915237 for ; Mon, 20 Dec 1999 12:45:36 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from spock@techfour.net) Received: from mail.techfour.net ([209.35.6.184]) by mail1.registeredsite.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id PAA28359 for ; Mon, 20 Dec 1999 15:48:39 -0500 Received: from enterprise.muriel.penguinpowered.com [208.138.198.17] by mail.techfour.net with ESMTP (SMTPD32-5.05) id A5661AAD0092; Mon, 20 Dec 1999 15:45:26 -0500 Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.3.1 [p0] on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 X-SENDERNAME: `Mike Heffner` Date: Mon, 20 Dec 1999 15:45:01 -0500 (EST) From: Mike Heffner To: current@freebsd.org Subject: error with install, "Unable to make device nodes..." Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG [ sorry if you get this twice, it didn't seem to go through the first time ] I'm having a problem trying to install the 12/20/99 -current snapshot. When I finalize all the settings and sysinstall is about to partition/setup the drive I get the following message: Unable to make device node of /dev/ad0s1b in /dev! The creation of filesystems will be aborted. If I switch to the second virtual terminal it says: DEBUG: Scanning disk ad0 for root filesystem DEBUG: Scanning disk ad0 for swap partitions DEBUG: MakeDev: Unable to lookup user "root". [ last line repeated several times ] The drive I'm installing on is a Seagate ST36451A IDE drive. I've tried switching between Auto and User(with proper geometry values) in the BIOS but neither worked. Is this a user error or is there something else wrong here? I checked the mailing lists but couldn't find anything appropriate. Thanks, --------------------------------- Mike Heffner Fredericksburg, VA ICQ# 882073 Date: 20-Dec-99 Time: 15:44:09 --------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message