Date: Wed, 20 Oct 2010 18:38:27 +0100 From: Martin Smith <mjs@rakupottery.org.uk> To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: installer unable to find device node Message-ID: <4CBF2913.8040303@rakupottery.org.uk> In-Reply-To: <20101020182816.0000552b@unknown> References: <4CBF2180.7040209@rakupottery.org.uk> <20101020182816.0000552b@unknown>
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On 20/10/2010 18:28, Bruce Cran wrote: > On Wed, 20 Oct 2010 18:06:08 +0100 > Martin Smith<mjs@rakupottery.org.uk> wrote: > >> I am attempting to install a recent snapshot on a Biostar GF7100P-M7S >> mobo, with an atapi cdrom and on sata hd, after setting up the slices >> and selecting the install medium I am presented with the following >> error: >> >> Unable to find device node for ad4s1b in dev! The creation of >> filesystems will be aborted. >> >> This also happened with an 8.0 installer, is this just me, is there >> something funny about this motherboard? > > Has the HDD previously been partitioned using GPT, or something other > than a traditional MBR? It was previously attached to a mac, do I need to zero out the partition table? > -- Martin
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