From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Feb 18 20:10:34 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 ECCB916A4CE for ; Fri, 18 Feb 2005 20:10:34 +0000 (GMT) Received: from clunix.cl.msu.edu (clunix.cl.msu.edu [35.9.2.10]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7F09B43D5E for ; Fri, 18 Feb 2005 20:10:34 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jerrymc@clunix.cl.msu.edu) Received: (from jerrymc@localhost) by clunix.cl.msu.edu (8.11.7p1+Sun/8.11.7) id j1IKATP08836; Fri, 18 Feb 2005 15:10:29 -0500 (EST) From: Jerry McAllister Message-Id: <200502182010.j1IKATP08836@clunix.cl.msu.edu> To: ksajith@yahoo.com (Sajith K) Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2005 15:08:47 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: <20050218200408.95142.qmail@web40507.mail.yahoo.com> from "Sajith K" at Feb 18, 2005 12:04:08 PM X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL2] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 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: Fri, 18 Feb 2005 20:10:35 -0000 > > i do see some reference to similar problem report in > some bsd related mailing archive. but there is no > solution mentioned. > > could somebody help me out ? > > thanks > sajith > > ------------------------------------------- > 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" Did /dev move to /mnt/dev in 5.xxx? I haven't started moving to 5.xxx yet, but in old times I would expect to see mount /dev/ad0s1f /mnt/usr or whatever. ////jerry > > 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 > > > --- 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!? > The all-new My Yahoo! - Get yours free! > http://my.yahoo.com > > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >