From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Feb 2 21:58:14 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 5899F106568B for ; Tue, 2 Feb 2010 21:58:14 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from vmagerya@gmail.com) Received: from mail-fx0-f226.google.com (mail-fx0-f226.google.com [209.85.220.226]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D820F8FC0C for ; Tue, 2 Feb 2010 21:58:13 +0000 (UTC) Received: by fxm26 with SMTP id 26so576150fxm.13 for ; Tue, 02 Feb 2010 13:58:13 -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:cc:subject:references:in-reply-to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=pWDgd2Cipzr4Tz/yjVVpoF9ETWfKUzG2dgfqDv7Y+EQ=; b=Mds7um6hfpJHkkqLC9X62L2yEbTWWvBJZMTDbkGKdtvzcZclzeQJ9K2Q7u1V0SkkG8 4FMzCV3Z0itg3JW6oG3jZF4tjTp/jSJlBXDCkXQx/Cy6HTKLA/1iAd0jiumKlpVovBFy o99sOyb5z16UWZocTV+NZ8YUsYA+DZ/ogLGAE= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:cc:subject :references:in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=j1EToJwWRervdcwR1twSHQZHZczQ03VSSr0yAPntj/s7QIUnwqJvnscJ9nL2p2uKG+ TQ2nfJKHFINNN4ttuRlb5n4iyc0vCK07YhKitfhsR9cwzQ+3mVKEWGikCLxkW5s3Lw+U yYPI34ZX5kOT9B2FSCYvvGB74qzd5GrKjH1E0= Received: by 10.102.235.8 with SMTP id i8mr4214514muh.31.1265147892956; Tue, 02 Feb 2010 13:58:12 -0800 (PST) Received: from ?172.16.0.7? ([85.198.160.156]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id t10sm1888150muh.11.2010.02.02.13.58.11 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Tue, 02 Feb 2010 13:58:12 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <4B689FF3.5080104@gmail.com> Date: Tue, 02 Feb 2010 23:58:11 +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: Kevin Oberman References: <20100202213148.9A87B1CC3F@ptavv.es.net> In-Reply-To: <20100202213148.9A87B1CC3F@ptavv.es.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 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 21:58:14 -0000 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?