Date: Sun, 2 Jan 2011 10:19:28 +0000 From: Bruce Cran <bruce@cran.org.uk> To: Michael Powell <nightrecon@hotmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: a new hard-drive in a 2y/o laptop Message-ID: <20110102101928.000060ce@unknown> In-Reply-To: <ifp6c4$8md$1@dough.gmane.org> References: <20110101033922.BBE051065783@hub.freebsd.org> <20110102130224.O49334@sola.nimnet.asn.au> <ifp6c4$8md$1@dough.gmane.org>
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On Sun, 02 Jan 2011 01:39:13 -0500 Michael Powell <nightrecon@hotmail.com> wrote: > "Unable to find device node for /dev/ad4s1b in /dev! The creation of > filesystems will be aborted." Then pressing "OK" brings this: > "Couldn't make filesystems properly. Aborting." > > This from sysinstall and occurs after fdisk, labeling, at the point > when sysinstall then tries to write out the config to the disk and > newfs. This can happen if you've had it partitioned using GPT at some point - in that case you need to use dd to zero the first _and_ last sectors of the disk. -- Bruce Cran
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