From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Feb 2 19:52:16 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7025D106566C for ; Tue, 2 Feb 2010 19:52:16 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from vmagerya@gmail.com) Received: from gv-out-0910.google.com (gv-out-0910.google.com [216.239.58.186]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F361C8FC28 for ; Tue, 2 Feb 2010 19:52:15 +0000 (UTC) Received: by gv-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id n29so103132gve.39 for ; Tue, 02 Feb 2010 11:52:14 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from :user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=Gbma1Xb++RuwtABLSO8LtuUNffV1tnoO2ot+JZVUoFs=; b=PRSpKttxnMu2ToEbH26zs5dO9OriYDIgB3hp6ZBqK1cztETeeuHmMozyGy5kcYu1WP i2oJhFfCiFRSL6GQjxzAN8FYD06mrB5thErIWkraY4BEEHyJTB9GXMYC4wGy3UmM46Fg 4KR+QZN9mkvTJuYjZ2/nuqU+cYZgy1MflErWs= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=g5YXd1kzAVVA8hAr9JPZH+sdiLGpA+z9QLCTipbp9sWU1yOKbLjBnemQ0n+XqCGPIX vOOceu5f2+zYSbp/gyR11IDzAlRhmMK3C/IOxjTohqLd/VaCAv0JHsJpyPfh/dBZCW0+ hHH7G9UoaLcaT41irVBq94NnVkKvEiL9xC8dc= Received: by 10.102.207.40 with SMTP id e40mr3899652mug.86.1265138974246; Tue, 02 Feb 2010 11:29:34 -0800 (PST) Received: from ?172.16.0.7? ([85.198.160.156]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id w5sm9773993mue.22.2010.02.02.11.29.32 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Tue, 02 Feb 2010 11:29:32 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <4B687D16.6090809@gmail.com> Date: Tue, 02 Feb 2010 21:29:26 +0200 From: Vitaly Magerya User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.1.7) Gecko/20100111 Thunderbird/3.0.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: 8.0 install fails to create filesystem ("unable to find device node") X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 02 Feb 2010 19:52:16 -0000 Greetings everyone. I'm trying to install FreeBSD 8.0 from Disk1 on ThinkPad T40, so far unsuccessfully. Here are the setup steps: Installer complains that "77520/16/63" may not be a good geometry for ad0, proposes "4864/255/63" instead (both eventually lead to failure). I create a single disk-wide slice (ad0s1), choose a boot manager, set up standard labeling for ad0s1, choose distributions. The setup tries to create filesystem and fails with this message: Unable to find device node for /dev/ad0s1b in /dev! Aside from debug messages, there's this on second VT: GEOM: ad0: geometry does not match label (255h,63s != 16h,63s). I also tried to setup 7.0 (w/o dangerously dedicated slicing), and then freebsd-update to 8.0. On first reboot required by freebsd-update the system drops to bootloader prompt and fails to find init on any of the filesystems. Help. Is there anything I can do to install 8.0? The dmesg of this machine (as seen by 7.0) is at [1]. I'll provide any further information -- just name it. [1] http://tx97.net/~magv/dmesg-t40.70.txt