Date: Tue, 2 Feb 2010 14:09:38 -0800
From: Jeremy Chadwick <freebsd@jdc.parodius.com>
To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: 8.0 install fails to create filesystem ("unable to find device node")
Message-ID: <20100202220938.GA81464@icarus.home.lan>
In-Reply-To: <4B689FF3.5080104@gmail.com>
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On Tue, Feb 02, 2010 at 11:58:11PM +0200, Vitaly Magerya wrote: > 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? 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. -- | Jeremy Chadwick jdc@parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Administrator Mountain View, CA, USA | | Making life hard for others since 1977. PGP: 4BD6C0CB |
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