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

[Henry Olyer]

The root partition ("/") is 10GB.

The SWAP area ("/swap") is 6GB.

And two additional area's, "/usr", 60GB,

And one personal area which I expect to remake using GBDE (after everything
is up and running,) that's about 90GB or so...

This is about 170GB, the disk shows 238GB, and the rest was unallocated.  I
also tried putting something else up, OpenBSD, before I did any of this.
 That didn't help -- the error was unchanged.  (Just the major number was
incremented, of course.)



On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 3:56 AM, Bruce Cran <bruce at cran.org.uk> wrote:

> [moved to freebsd-sysinstall]
>
> On Mon, 20 Sep 2010 03:17:54 -0400
> Henry Olyer <henry.olyer at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > 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
>
> That's a sysinstall error. Could you tell me what FreeBSD version you're
> trying to install, what HDD you have and how you're trying to partition
> it please? I'd be really interested in getting this replicated and
> fixed!
>
> --
> Bruce Cran
>