Date: Sat, 05 Jul 97 23:31:08 +0200 From: "Mats Dufberg" <Mats.Dufberg@abc.se> To: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Unable to make device node Message-ID: <199707052131.XAA24657@bar.pilsnet.sunet.se>
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I'm trying to install FreeBSD (2.2.1, Walnut Creek april '97),
but the installation fails when the file system is to be
created, "Unable to make device node for /dev/X in /dev"
(yes, it says a literal "X").
The disk is a IDE disk (Seagate Medalist 2140, 2 GB). It is
connected to a EIDE controller (Promise EIDE2300plus) on
VL bus. Physically it has 4095 cyls, 16 heads and 63 sectors
per track, but it is run in LBA mode and is translated to
1023 cyls, 64 heads and 63 sectors per tracs.
The disk has the following layout, reported by FDISK of OS/2:
SIZE (MB) TYPE FILE SYSTEM
1 primary boot manager
350 primary HPFS
11 primary FAT
100 secondary FAT
1000 secondary HPFS
35 secondary HPFS
511 secondary unused
The disk is mounted as wd0 by FreeBSD. During installation,
when asked to assign disk for FreeBSD, FDISK reports (size
in sectors and approx. translated into MB):
SIZE NAME TYPE
sec MB
63 -- 6 unused
3969 2 wd0s4 1 OS/2 bootmgr
717696 350 wd0s3 1 NTFS/HPFS
24192 12 wd0s2 1 unknown
2326464 1136 wd0s1 4 extended
1055376 515 -- 6 unused
* Is it normal that secondary partitions are reported as
one single partition?
When selecting the unused area and creating a FreeBSD
slice with "C" the following to lines will substitute
the last line above:
1052352 X 3 freebsd
3024 -- 6 unused
* Is the name of the partition really to be "X"?
In the next step I do a default labelling. Just after
selecting "comit" (and answered som warnings) I get
the error message:
"Unable to make device node for /dev/X in /dev"
* Can anyone give me a suggestion how to procede the
installation? I have found no answer in neither FAQ
nor handbook.
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Mats Dufberg mats.dufberg@abc.se
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