PowerApp 120/1550 Install problems

[Brian A. Seklecki]

sysinstall will frequently silently fail on the physical partitioning
stage for any variety of reasons which will fail to create the
appropriate slice entries

Show us your partition and slice tables?

Send logs from the emergency VTY?

~BAS

On Sat, 2007-03-17 at 21:02 -0400, Don Munyak wrote:
> On 3/17/07, Minnesota Slinky <mnslinky at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Hey list,
> >
> > I'm trying to install FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE on a Dell PowerApp 120
> > (1550) I just purchased.  The system claims to have an AIC 7899 SCSI
> > host adapter.  I've currently got a known-good 9GB Fujitsu hard disk
> > in the system, as ID 0.  During installation, the disk comes up as
> > da0.  After going through all the options for install, etc, I get an
> > error when it tries to write the file systems:
> >
> > "Unable to find device node for /dev/da0s1b in /dev!" and mentions
> > that installation is aborting.  At first I thought it was a problem
> > with the SCSI backplane, but RHEL and Window 2000 Server both install
> > and operate without problems.
> >
> > Thanks for your advice!
> >
> > Eric Crist
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> 
> Don't know the answer, but have a suggestion.
> 
> How about getting a live cd to boot from and then query /var/log for
> hardware spec's
> 
> Don
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