Date: Tue, 02 Feb 2010 23:58:11 +0200
From: Vitaly Magerya <vmagerya@gmail.com>
To: Kevin Oberman <oberman@es.net>
Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: 8.0 install fails to create filesystem ("unable to find device node")
Message-ID: <4B689FF3.5080104@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20100202213148.9A87B1CC3F@ptavv.es.net>
References: <20100202213148.9A87B1CC3F@ptavv.es.net>
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Kevin Oberman wrote: >> The setup tries to create filesystem and fails with this message: >> >> Unable to find device node for /dev/ad0s1b in /dev! > > Are you doing a 'W'rite in the labeling tools? I'm guess that you are > not, but I wanted to be sure. You don't want to. Nope, no write. > You say that you are doing the default partitions. If so, the 'b' > partition should be swap. It should not get 'newfs'ed. No file system > needed (or wanted) there. This tells me that something was wrong in the > partition setup if it THINKS that there is a need to newfs partition > 'b'. Yes, ad0s1b is the swap, but I think it fails before doing newfs. "Writing partition information to ad0" is the last message I see before the error occurs, no newfs popups occur. >> Aside from debug messages, there's this on second VT: >> >> GEOM: ad0: geometry does not match label (255h,63s != 16h,63s). > > This is a known issue, but cosmetic in almost all cases. OK, good. > I suspect that you are doing something wrong, but it's hard to figure > out just what it might be. Anything I can do to see what's the problem?
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