From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Mar 26 05:39:26 2009 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 25E8C106564A for ; Thu, 26 Mar 2009 05:39:26 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from darius@dons.net.au) Received: from cain.gsoft.com.au (cain.gsoft.com.au [203.31.81.10]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8D66C8FC0C for ; Thu, 26 Mar 2009 05:39:25 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from darius@dons.net.au) Received: from inchoate.localnet (Inchoate.gsoft.com.au [203.31.81.30]) (authenticated bits=0) by cain.gsoft.com.au (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id n2Q5d74c026867 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Thu, 26 Mar 2009 16:09:09 +1030 (CST) (envelope-from darius@dons.net.au) From: "Daniel O'Connor" To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Date: Thu, 26 Mar 2009 16:08:56 +1030 User-Agent: KMail/1.10.4 (Linux/2.6.27-11-generic; KDE/4.1.4; i686; ; ) References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart7204689.KsPHQF3LC7"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200903261609.03160.darius@dons.net.au> X-Spam-Score: -3.977 () ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_00 X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.63 on 203.31.81.10 Cc: Saifi Khan Subject: Re: FreeBSD 8.x 200902 snapshot 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: Thu, 26 Mar 2009 05:39:26 -0000 --nextPart7204689.KsPHQF3LC7 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline Moved to -stable since 6.x is -stable. On Thursday 26 March 2009 12:32:08 Saifi Khan wrote: > Hi: > > Trying to install FreeBSD 6.x 200902 snapshot from a DVD media > on a i386 box and i encounter this error dialog after selecting > distribution set. > > "Unable to find device node for /dev/ad4/s2b in /dev! > The creation of filesystems will be aborted" Why is it /dev/ad4/s2b? Shouldn't it be /dev/ad4s2b? Or is that extra '/' a typo? If you open the emergency holographic shell, what does echo /dev/ad4* say? =2D-=20 Daniel O'Connor software and network engineer for Genesis Software - http://www.gsoft.com.au "The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to choose from." -- Andrew Tanenbaum GPG Fingerprint - 5596 B766 97C0 0E94 4347 295E E593 DC20 7B3F CE8C --nextPart7204689.KsPHQF3LC7 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Description: This is a digitally signed message part. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQBJyxTx5ZPcIHs/zowRAv79AJ42I/4IrM8kLmv6jL4zXp2f+FluuACfUsFL qXFJag2WLfpjTs4zXHS46ek= =jyMh -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart7204689.KsPHQF3LC7--