Date: Tue, 28 Dec 2010 02:23:20 -0500 From: Michael Powell <nightrecon@hotmail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: a new hard-drive in a 2y/o laptop Message-ID: <ifc34c$ld5$1@dough.gmane.org> References: <AANLkTimNwCqF%2Bp0SG_oTNwT5TjOFyEHsFAGusj9dOn5X@mail.gmail.com>
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Chris Brennan wrote: > I've got an HP Business Class laptop (dv2700) and the original 250G SATAII > drive is going bad. So I bought a new drive, got a great deal on an SATAII > 750G drive for it, bios sees the drive fine. The old drive had > FBSD8.2/amd64 installed and it ran fine. I wanted to reinstall to make > some partition changes anyway so when I tossed in any install medium I get > the following error > > 'Unable to find device node for /dev/ad4s1b in dev! The creation of > filesystems will be aborted.' > > I didn't select anything crazy and accepted defaults for everything. I > figured out the advanced bios option and am in the bios now letting the > bios' smart features run there tests (and it just shut down on me, this > happens in the winter when the heat is on :( ). Anyway, gonna let it cool > down and try the smart tests again. Incidentally, I was able to boot a > gentoo disc and set up an ext4 filesystem on the same disk and it worked > fine, so I don't understand why freebsd can't preform a newfs on the > drive. _______________________________________________ Try zeroing out the mbr: Boot a LiveFS CD, then at a root prompt do: sysctl kern.geom.debugflags=16 and: dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/adx oseek=1 bs=512 count=1 where x equals your drive number. This will zero out any old MBR. I have seen this exact error before, and this is what took care of it. -Mike
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