From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Dec 28 07:21:00 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4D40D106566B for ; Tue, 28 Dec 2010 07:21:00 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd-questions@m.gmane.org) Received: from lo.gmane.org (lo.gmane.org [80.91.229.12]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C43778FC0C for ; Tue, 28 Dec 2010 07:20:59 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PXTrd-0003U8-AQ for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Tue, 28 Dec 2010 08:20:57 +0100 Received: from pool-173-79-85-36.washdc.fios.verizon.net ([173.79.85.36]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 28 Dec 2010 08:20:57 +0100 Received: from nightrecon by pool-173-79-85-36.washdc.fios.verizon.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 28 Dec 2010 08:20:57 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org From: Michael Powell Followup-To: gmane.os.freebsd.questions Date: Tue, 28 Dec 2010 02:23:20 -0500 Lines: 37 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: pool-173-79-85-36.washdc.fios.verizon.net Subject: Re: a new hard-drive in a 2y/o laptop X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 28 Dec 2010 07:21:00 -0000 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