From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Sep 20 08:15:49 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C81E61065672 for ; Mon, 20 Sep 2010 08:15:49 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from glimp@live.com) Received: from blu0-omc4-s21.blu0.hotmail.com (blu0-omc4-s21.blu0.hotmail.com [65.55.111.160]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8C8A98FC0C for ; Mon, 20 Sep 2010 08:15:49 +0000 (UTC) Received: from BLU0-SMTP158 ([65.55.111.135]) by blu0-omc4-s21.blu0.hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.4675); Mon, 20 Sep 2010 01:15:48 -0700 X-Originating-IP: [151.49.233.243] X-Originating-Email: [glimp@live.com] Message-ID: Received: from genki.collidiamo.net ([151.49.233.243]) by BLU0-SMTP158.phx.gbl over TLS secured channel with Microsoft SMTPSVC(6.0.3790.4675); Mon, 20 Sep 2010 01:15:47 -0700 Date: Mon, 20 Sep 2010 10:12:17 +0200 From: dan User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.9.2.9) Gecko/20100910 Thunderbird/3.1.3 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1"; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-OriginalArrivalTime: 20 Sep 2010 08:15:47.0831 (UTC) FILETIME=[07BF4870:01CB589C] Subject: Re: Unable to find device node for /dev/ad4s1b in /dev X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 20 Sep 2010 08:15:49 -0000 On 20.09.2010 09:17, Henry Olyer wrote: > Not that I blame the people behind FBSD. I am amazed that it's so robust. > But of course, since I purchased this ASPIRE laptop (model 7741Z,) for > FreeBSD I'd like to run that on it. So far, well, maybe Billy Gates has > finally gotten his memory back, maybe he'll finally make something that > works. > > This is what I know, I run the FBSD install program and immediately, as soon > as the system attempts to do the necessary partitioning. That's when the > failure occurs, with the complaint that: > > Unable to find device node for /dev/ad4s1b in /dev > > I've tried a few things, I can put OpenBSD up, works fine -- except as good > as that system is, I need to run FBSD. I do development and research and > everything I've done for the last decade is done under FBSD. > > So I guess I am really serious here, HELP. > > Oh, one more thing. I can install PC-BSD, that works. And I actually like > that system, I just don't want all that overhead, it's pretty resource > intensive. > > I just want my FreeBSD. The thing is, am I going to get it? > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > > Hi, any hints from the following posts ? http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=5288 http://unix.derkeiler.com/Mailing-Lists/FreeBSD/questions/2005-02/2448.html d