Date: Wed, 03 Feb 2010 00:55:54 +0200
From: Vitaly Magerya <vmagerya@gmail.com>
To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: 8.0 install fails to create filesystem ("unable to find device node")
Message-ID: <4B68AD7A.1070407@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20100202220938.GA81464@icarus.home.lan>
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Jeremy Chadwick wrote: >> Yes, ad0s1b is the swap, but I think it fails before doing newfs. >> "Writing partition information to ad0" is the last message I see before >> the error occurs, no newfs popups occur. By the way, in the fixit console /dev has ad0b but not ad0s1b. > Can you get this disk into a system (or the same system if booting off > CD, etc.) where you can do the following to it and then retry the > installation? > > dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/ad0 bs=64k count=1 > > No, this isn't a joke. This should also clear up the GEOM label > error/warning you see. Yay, that did the trick. I installed 8.0 into a usb flash and cleaned ad0 from there. The setup successfully created the filesystems and is copying files right now. Thank you! I hope that sysinstall will be able to recognize this situation in future releases.
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