From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Jul 5 14:34:52 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id OAA20907 for questions-outgoing; Sat, 5 Jul 1997 14:34:52 -0700 (PDT) Received: from bar.pilsnet.sunet.se (bar.pilsnet.sunet.se [192.36.125.14]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id OAA20902 for ; Sat, 5 Jul 1997 14:34:48 -0700 (PDT) Received: from hasselby.dufberg.sunet.se (hasselby.dufberg.sunet.se [192.36.125.211]) by bar.pilsnet.sunet.se (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id XAA24657 for ; Sat, 5 Jul 1997 23:31:35 +0200 (MET DST) Message-Id: <199707052131.XAA24657@bar.pilsnet.sunet.se> From: "Mats Dufberg" To: "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" Date: Sat, 05 Jul 97 23:31:08 +0200 Reply-To: "Mats Dufberg" Priority: Normal X-Mailer: PMMail 1.92 For OS/2 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Unable to make device node Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk I'm trying to install FreeBSD (2.2.1, Walnut Creek april '97), but the installation fails when the file system is to be created, "Unable to make device node for /dev/X in /dev" (yes, it says a literal "X"). The disk is a IDE disk (Seagate Medalist 2140, 2 GB). It is connected to a EIDE controller (Promise EIDE2300plus) on VL bus. Physically it has 4095 cyls, 16 heads and 63 sectors per track, but it is run in LBA mode and is translated to 1023 cyls, 64 heads and 63 sectors per tracs. The disk has the following layout, reported by FDISK of OS/2: SIZE (MB) TYPE FILE SYSTEM 1 primary boot manager 350 primary HPFS 11 primary FAT 100 secondary FAT 1000 secondary HPFS 35 secondary HPFS 511 secondary unused The disk is mounted as wd0 by FreeBSD. During installation, when asked to assign disk for FreeBSD, FDISK reports (size in sectors and approx. translated into MB): SIZE NAME TYPE sec MB 63 -- 6 unused 3969 2 wd0s4 1 OS/2 bootmgr 717696 350 wd0s3 1 NTFS/HPFS 24192 12 wd0s2 1 unknown 2326464 1136 wd0s1 4 extended 1055376 515 -- 6 unused * Is it normal that secondary partitions are reported as one single partition? When selecting the unused area and creating a FreeBSD slice with "C" the following to lines will substitute the last line above: 1052352 X 3 freebsd 3024 -- 6 unused * Is the name of the partition really to be "X"? In the next step I do a default labelling. Just after selecting "comit" (and answered som warnings) I get the error message: "Unable to make device node for /dev/X in /dev" * Can anyone give me a suggestion how to procede the installation? I have found no answer in neither FAQ nor handbook. ------------------------------------------------------ Mats Dufberg mats.dufberg@abc.se