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Date:      Wed, 20 Oct 2010 18:28:16 +0100
From:      Bruce Cran <bruce@cran.org.uk>
To:        Martin Smith <mjs@rakupottery.org.uk>
Cc:        FreeBSD Current <freebsd-current@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: installer unable to find device node
Message-ID:  <20101020182816.0000552b@unknown>
In-Reply-To: <4CBF2180.7040209@rakupottery.org.uk>
References:  <4CBF2180.7040209@rakupottery.org.uk>

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On Wed, 20 Oct 2010 18:06:08 +0100
Martin Smith <mjs@rakupottery.org.uk> wrote:

> I am attempting to install a recent snapshot on a Biostar GF7100P-M7S 
> mobo, with an atapi cdrom and on sata hd, after setting up the slices 
> and selecting the install medium I am presented with the following
> error:
> 
> Unable to find device node for ad4s1b in dev! The creation of 
> filesystems will be aborted.
> 
> This also happened with an 8.0 installer, is this just me, is there 
> something funny about this motherboard?

Has the HDD previously been partitioned using GPT, or something other
than a traditional MBR?

-- 
Bruce Cran



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