Re: Unable to find device node for /dev/ad4s1b in /dev

2010-09-20 Thread dan

On 20.09.2010 09:17, Henry Olyer wrote:

Not that I blame the people behind FBSD.  I am amazed that it's so robust.
  But of course, since I purchased this ASPIRE laptop (model 7741Z,) for
FreeBSD I'd like to run that on it.  So far, well, maybe Billy Gates has
finally gotten his memory back, maybe he'll finally make something that
works.

This is what I know, I run the FBSD install program and immediately, as soon
as the system attempts to do the necessary partitioning.  That's when the
failure occurs, with the complaint that:

Unable to find device node for /dev/ad4s1b in /dev

I've tried a few things, I can put OpenBSD up, works fine -- except as good
as that system is, I need to run FBSD.  I do development and research and
everything I've done for the last decade is done under FBSD.

So I guess I am really serious here, HELP.

Oh, one more thing.  I can install PC-BSD, that works.  And I actually like
that system, I just don't want all that overhead, it's pretty resource
intensive.

I just want my FreeBSD.  The thing is, am I going to get it?
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Hi,

any hints from the following posts ?

http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=5288

http://unix.derkeiler.com/Mailing-Lists/FreeBSD/questions/2005-02/2448.html

d
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Unable to find device node for /dev/ad4s1b in /dev

2010-09-20 Thread Henry Olyer
Not that I blame the people behind FBSD.  I am amazed that it's so robust.
 But of course, since I purchased this ASPIRE laptop (model 7741Z,) for
FreeBSD I'd like to run that on it.  So far, well, maybe Billy Gates has
finally gotten his memory back, maybe he'll finally make something that
works.

This is what I know, I run the FBSD install program and immediately, as soon
as the system attempts to do the necessary partitioning.  That's when the
failure occurs, with the complaint that:

Unable to find device node for /dev/ad4s1b in /dev

I've tried a few things, I can put OpenBSD up, works fine -- except as good
as that system is, I need to run FBSD.  I do development and research and
everything I've done for the last decade is done under FBSD.

So I guess I am really serious here, HELP.

Oh, one more thing.  I can install PC-BSD, that works.  And I actually like
that system, I just don't want all that overhead, it's pretty resource
intensive.

I just want my FreeBSD.  The thing is, am I going to get it?
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Re: "Unable to find device node for ./dev/ad4s1b in /dev"

2010-09-18 Thread Peter Boosten



On 18 sep 2010, at 22:15, Henry Olyer  wrote:


This morning I downloaded and burned the latest CD for 8.1.

Then I took a brand new laptop, an ACER, model ASPIRE-7741Z-5731,  
and tried

to install FreeBSD.  (It had a copy of windoz on it.  goodbye and good
riddance.)

My point is simple, this is about as vanilla as it gets.

And I get the error, shown in the subject line.

Not sure if this is important, but the ad4s1b partition is the SWAP
partition.



I lost data this way...

And I'm quite happy (not for you) to see .I'm not the only one  
experiencing this phenomena.


Peter



--jg
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"Unable to find device node for ./dev/ad4s1b in /dev"

2010-09-18 Thread Henry Olyer
This morning I downloaded and burned the latest CD for 8.1.

Then I took a brand new laptop, an ACER, model ASPIRE-7741Z-5731, and tried
to install FreeBSD.  (It had a copy of windoz on it.  goodbye and good
riddance.)

My point is simple, this is about as vanilla as it gets.

And I get the error, shown in the subject line.

Not sure if this is important, but the ad4s1b partition is the SWAP
partition.

--jg
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Re: Unable to find device node for /dev/ad4s1b in /dev !

2009-05-11 Thread Saifi Khan
On Sun, 10 May 2009, James Phillips wrote:

> 
> --- On Mon, 5/11/09, Saifi Khan  wrote:
> 
> > From: Saifi Khan 
> > Subject: Unable to find device node for /dev/ad4s1b in /dev !
> > To: freebsd-curr...@freebsd.org, "FreeBSD Questions" 
> > 
> > Received: Monday, May 11, 2009, 6:45 AM
> > Hi all:
> > 
> > Issue faced
> >  Installer on 'Commit' step shows
> >   Unable to find device node for /dev/ad4s1b in /dev!
> >   The creation of filesystems will be aborted.
> 
> I am missing some context, but for me ad4 refers to the first drive on an 
> add-on card. (ad0,1 -> Primary IDE controller, ad2,3 -> Secondary IDE 
> controller)
> 
> handbook reference:
> http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/install-steps.html
> (Rule out the situation described in:
> 2.6.1 BIOS Drive Numbering)
> 
> Your hardware in newer than mine: you have only one PATA port and 2 SATA 
> ports. While having your drive labeled as ad4 strikes me as weird, I don't 
> have enough BSD experience to know if it is a symptom of a problem or not. (I 
> know my drive is on ad4 because the on-board controllers are slower than my 
> add-on card. After a BIOS update booting is no problem. (I initially tried to 
> forcibly disable the on-board controller: now, I ignore it.))
> 
> 
> Do you think you may have come across an installer bug?
> If so, I suspect we will need more information about exactly what you were 
> trying to do.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> James Phillips
> 
> > 
> > System
> >  Intel Celeron M 1.6 GHz 
> >  Intel 945GM board
> Mobile chipset apparently.
> 
> >  2GB DDR2
> >  160GB SATA Seagate HDD
> > 
> 
> > 
> > Any pointers or workarounds ?
> > 
> > 

Thank you for your kind reply.

Thank you for the handbook reference, i did read the section.
In fact, there is only one SATA HDD in my laptop.

PCI information

00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile 945GM/PM/GMS, 943/940GML and 
945GT Express Memory Controller Hub (rev 03)
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Mobile 945GM/GMS, 
943/940GML Express Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 03)
00:02.1 Display controller: Intel Corporation Mobile 945GM/GMS/GME, 943/940GML 
Express Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 03)
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) High Definition 
Audio Controller (rev 01)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) PCI Express Port 1 
(rev 01)
00:1c.2 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) PCI Express Port 3 
(rev 01)
00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI 
Controller #1 (rev 01)
00:1d.1 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI 
Controller #2 (rev 01)
00:1d.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB UHCI 
Controller #3 (rev 01)
00:1d.7 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) USB2 EHCI 
Controller (rev 01)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev e1)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82801GBM (ICH7-M) LPC Interface Bridge 
(rev 01)
00:1f.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) IDE Controller 
(rev 01)
00:1f.2 SATA controller: Intel Corporation 82801GBM/GHM (ICH7 Family) SATA AHCI 
Controller (rev 01)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 82801G (ICH7 Family) SMBus Controller (rev 01)
06:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM94311MCG wlan mini-PCI (rev 
01)
08:08.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. 
RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+ (rev 10)

I've got two identical Compaq Presario C300TU laptops - one
running Gentoo Linux and other "would" run FreeBSD 8.0 (when it gets)

Additionally, from the BIOS i've activated
 . Wireless Radio (Broadcom chipset)
 . Native SATA Controller
 . Realtek Netboot agent

There is only ONE SATA Seagate HDD of 160GB in the system.

Currently, i'm struggling to get the installation work from the
Fixit# command line.

Any suggestions ?


thanks
Saifi.
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Unable to find device node for /dev/ad4s1b in /dev !

2009-05-10 Thread Saifi Khan
Hi all:

Issue faced
 Installer on 'Commit' step shows
  Unable to find device node for /dev/ad4s1b in /dev!
  The creation of filesystems will be aborted.

System
 Intel Celeron M 1.6 GHz 
 Intel 945GM board
 2GB DDR2
 160GB SATA Seagate HDD

i'm using FreeBSD 8.0 200905 i386 DVD to try and install 
the OS.

Using the FreeBSD 7.1 DVD, i'm able to make the partition,
define the slices and install a 'minimal' distribution set.

However with FreeBSD 8.0 200905 snapshot i'm getting the 
above mentioned error.

Any pointers or workarounds ?


thanks
Saifi.
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