From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Feb 2 22:55:57 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 187661065676 for ; Tue, 2 Feb 2010 22:55:57 +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 9BDE88FC0C for ; Tue, 2 Feb 2010 22:55:56 +0000 (UTC) Received: by fxm26 with SMTP id 26so629085fxm.13 for ; Tue, 02 Feb 2010 14:55:55 -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:references:in-reply-to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=bj3ZX6IA5Bv4fKidBflPmlqPz1Ctur1BOnNka4sE9RU=; b=VLIhaGYHImNxR627lYz9WNH84jcJMuCCs8MiC+nqG/EnLeuSA2lBHRJbCynxaJrX0L 91G53lMTCI1GUnFj883TNFbtSLurjIQFaUWlMo0CUSTDbe7vKrSwZoT3DLw1u8l2amqB QUkixNtv0brxS/bMcuDrjdNgrEehRFnsvK+lw= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:subject:references :in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=wkp01bGgqVWB+QS4yI/idwQBVXAxZythfIr1PVjHPUR76IpcWxJW/tQDr0qNOuUgQ2 8qXeRXeXSM2cu6OTcWGVkf0QS8nq+wrpHnY9eaYi80c/LCPLiarhZGLbS0ahBlOmBv85 wNfcgLyuMeQXyocJXTk4EPIy2kbm72XPc0hDs= Received: by 10.103.125.37 with SMTP id c37mr4455705mun.3.1265151355539; Tue, 02 Feb 2010 14:55:55 -0800 (PST) Received: from ?172.16.0.7? ([85.198.160.156]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id s10sm2392320muh.59.2010.02.02.14.55.54 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Tue, 02 Feb 2010 14:55:54 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <4B68AD7A.1070407@gmail.com> Date: Wed, 03 Feb 2010 00:55:54 +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 References: <20100202213148.9A87B1CC3F@ptavv.es.net> <4B689FF3.5080104@gmail.com> <20100202220938.GA81464@icarus.home.lan> In-Reply-To: <20100202220938.GA81464@icarus.home.lan> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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 22:55:57 -0000 Jeremy Chadwick wrote: >> 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. By the way, in the fixit console /dev has ad0b but not ad0s1b. > Can you get this disk into a system (or the same system if booting off > CD, etc.) where you can do the following to it and then retry the > installation? > > dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/ad0 bs=64k count=1 > > No, this isn't a joke. This should also clear up the GEOM label > error/warning you see. Yay, that did the trick. I installed 8.0 into a usb flash and cleaned ad0 from there. The setup successfully created the filesystems and is copying files right now. Thank you! I hope that sysinstall will be able to recognize this situation in future releases.