Date: Tue, 02 Feb 2010 13:31:48 -0800
From: "Kevin Oberman" <oberman@es.net>
To: Vitaly Magerya <vmagerya@gmail.com>
Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: 8.0 install fails to create filesystem ("unable to find device node")
Message-ID: <20100202213148.9A87B1CC3F@ptavv.es.net>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 02 Feb 2010 21:29:26 %2B0200." <4B687D16.6090809@gmail.com>
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> Date: Tue, 02 Feb 2010 21:29:26 +0200 > From: Vitaly Magerya <vmagerya@gmail.com> > Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@freebsd.org > > Greetings everyone. I'm trying to install FreeBSD 8.0 from Disk1 on > ThinkPad T40, so far unsuccessfully. > > Here are the setup steps: > Installer complains that "77520/16/63" may not be a good geometry for > ad0, proposes "4864/255/63" instead (both eventually lead to failure). > I create a single disk-wide slice (ad0s1), choose a boot manager, set up > standard labeling for ad0s1, choose distributions. > > 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. 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'. > 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. I suspect that you are doing something wrong, but it's hard to figure out just what it might be. -- R. Kevin Oberman, Network Engineer Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) Ernest O. Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) E-mail: oberman@es.net Phone: +1 510 486-8634 Key fingerprint:059B 2DDF 031C 9BA3 14A4 EADA 927D EBB3 987B 3751
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