Greetings everyone. I'm trying to install FreeBSD 8.0 from Disk1 on
ThinkPad T40, so far unsuccessfully.
Here are the setup steps:
Installer complains that 77520/16/63 may not be a good geometry for
ad0, proposes 4864/255/63 instead (both eventually lead to failure).
I create a single disk-wide
Date: Tue, 02 Feb 2010 21:29:26 +0200
From: Vitaly Magerya vmage...@gmail.com
Sender: owner-freebsd-sta...@freebsd.org
Greetings everyone. I'm trying to install FreeBSD 8.0 from Disk1 on
ThinkPad T40, so far unsuccessfully.
Here are the setup steps:
Installer complains that 77520/16/63
Kevin Oberman wrote:
The setup tries to create filesystem and fails with this message:
Unable to find device node for /dev/ad0s1b in /dev!
Are you doing a 'W'rite in the labeling tools? I'm guess that you are
not, but I wanted to be sure. You don't want to.
Nope, no write.
You say
On Tue, Feb 02, 2010 at 11:58:11PM +0200, Vitaly Magerya wrote:
Kevin Oberman wrote:
The setup tries to create filesystem and fails with this message:
Unable to find device node for /dev/ad0s1b in /dev!
Are you doing a 'W'rite in the labeling tools? I'm guess that you are
not,
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
