Date: Sat, 16 Apr 2005 12:35:21 -0700 From: "Michael C. Shultz" <ringworm01@gmail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Cylinder geometry problem - Unable to find device node Message-ID: <200504161235.21965.ringworm01@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <000701c542b9$51c5d5f0$aad1cf9b@pc> References: <000701c542b9$51c5d5f0$aad1cf9b@pc>
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On Saturday 16 April 2005 12:20 pm, =C5=F5=F3=F4=DC=E8=E9=EF=F2 =CA=E1=EC= =F0=DD=F1=E7=F2 wrote: > Hello to everyone :) > > In an attempt to install FreeBSD 5.4-RC2, I encountered (except for many > other things :p) the following problem: > > There is a disagreement as fas as the cylinder geometry of my hard disk is > concercned, beetwen BIOS and FreeBSD. Sysinstall asks me to adjust it > appropriately, but when I do so, the installation process terminates with > an error: "Unable to find device node for /dev/X in /dev". I flashed my > BIOS with the latest update but it didn't seem to help. > > In the same disk I have Linux and Windows XP installed. > > Thank you a lot, > Stathis K. > > P.S. In case it's a trivial matter, forgive my ignorance. By any chance is this a SATA drive? If so I had the same problem, the only way to get sysinstall to partition it was to use the latest version of= =20 sysinstall from a fresh buildworld, the sysinstall located in /usr/sbin=20 not /stand. It worked even though there was still the warning message. =2DMike
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