From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Feb 18 20:04:09 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3541516A4CE for ; Fri, 18 Feb 2005 20:04:09 +0000 (GMT) Received: from web40507.mail.yahoo.com (web40507.mail.yahoo.com [66.218.78.124]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 0AF1E43D53 for ; Fri, 18 Feb 2005 20:04:09 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from ksajith@yahoo.com) Received: (qmail 95144 invoked by uid 60001); 18 Feb 2005 20:04:08 -0000 Comment: DomainKeys? See http://antispam.yahoo.com/domainkeys DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.com; b=U//gVORaK2hYFY74VbIQlX06GTuo/Tb1kA7EPWoN60Fg2farfc7lGxUtajvqx6UGprXkV3k8NX5qJ64hdhgSgmigiEJjaJ2VIQIPFPPsZQaYZamJJSIqYMEbIc4EIm9Z0EmirG0qQYwTo/G+qDaDXH9HZjUgpb7A1R8CMpEbIpo= ; Message-ID: <20050218200408.95142.qmail@web40507.mail.yahoo.com> Received: from [209.10.233.250] by web40507.mail.yahoo.com via HTTP; Fri, 18 Feb 2005 12:04:08 PST Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2005 12:04:08 -0800 (PST) From: Sajith K To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <44r7jhps2g.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii cc: freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org Subject: mounting error /mnt/dev/ad0s1f on /mnt/usr : Input/output error X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2005 20:04:09 -0000 i could successfully install RedHat 8.0 without any problem. so i think there is no problem with the system. i do see some reference to similar problem report in some bsd related mailing archive. but there is no solution mentioned. could somebody help me out ? thanks sajith ------------------------------------------- my disk has the following geometry: 9729 cyl/255 head/64 sectors when i used fdisk from linux, i got a warning that cyl is > 1024 which may not work correctly with fdisk of win and os/2. is this the case with freebsd ? thanks sajith ---------------- i did create the slices using default option (A) and partions using default option (A). now i see the following problem: "mounting error /mnt/dev/ad0s1f on /mnt/usr : Input/output error" i think it is the problem with the disk geometry i don't know what. i have a 80GB disk, and i tried changing the mode from LBA to NORMAL to LARGE in the BIOS setting but it didn't help. /usr is the the last partition in the default list of partiontions. thanks in advance for your time --- Lowell Gilbert wrote: > Sajith K writes: > > > When I tried to install freebsd 5.3 in a PIII > machine > > with 80GB hard disk I get the following error: > > > > "Unable to find device node for /dev/ad0s1b in > /dev!" > > "The creation of filesystems will be aborted" > > > > Could some one help me out ? > > Sounds like you forgot to allocate (and commit) the > slices before you > tried to create the partitions... > __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? The all-new My Yahoo! - Get yours free! http://my.yahoo.com