From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Feb 17 18:34:13 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 313A316A4CE for ; Thu, 17 Feb 2005 18:34:13 +0000 (GMT) Received: from web40508.mail.yahoo.com (web40508.mail.yahoo.com [66.218.78.125]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id E70E643D31 for ; Thu, 17 Feb 2005 18:34:12 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from ksajith@yahoo.com) Received: (qmail 20090 invoked by uid 60001); 17 Feb 2005 18:34:12 -0000 Comment: DomainKeys? See http://antispam.yahoo.com/domainkeys DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.com; b=fy7NWImA1HxZXlU8PHD1lM7SJEBlcC8pzWrsDBmbAnG6OdBFm9+fpR+tqi8txAexXjg36KaOXembo/d2fH0gpvcAmVFicykaQgegdNUcKSvelRxDDOx5w7G0Bmj82LkddQVRurwj4Y/7l3eeBfHiDBvCzy9wUr1a2iAMvqt7CQc= ; Message-ID: <20050217183412.20088.qmail@web40508.mail.yahoo.com> Received: from [209.10.233.250] by web40508.mail.yahoo.com via HTTP; Thu, 17 Feb 2005 10:34:12 PST Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2005 10:34:12 -0800 (PST) From: Sajith K To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <44r7jhps2g.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Subject: mounting error /mnt/dev/ad0s1f on /mnt/usr : Input/output error X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2005 18:34:13 -0000 my disk has the following geometry: 9729 cyl/255 head/64 sectors when i used fdisk from linux, i got a warning that cyl is > 1024 which may not work correctly with fdisk of win and os/2. is this the case with freebsd ? thanks sajith ---------------- i did create the slices using default option (A) and partions using default option (A). now i see the following problem: "mounting error /mnt/dev/ad0s1f on /mnt/usr : Input/output error" i think it is the problem with the disk geometry i don't know what. i have a 80GB disk, and i tried changing the mode from LBA to NORMAL to LARGE in the BIOS setting but it didn't help. /usr is the the last partition in the default list of partiontions. thanks in advance for your time sajith --- Lowell Gilbert wrote: > Sajith K writes: > > > When I tried to install freebsd 5.3 in a PIII > machine > > with 80GB hard disk I get the following error: > > > > "Unable to find device node for /dev/ad0s1b in > /dev!" > > "The creation of filesystems will be aborted" > > > > Could some one help me out ? > > Sounds like you forgot to allocate (and commit) the > slices before you > tried to create the partitions... > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com