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From: Jayton Garnett <jay@codegurus.org>
To: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org
Subject: /dev/X? should be /dev/ad1s*
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>Number:         84008
>Category:       i386
>Synopsis:       /dev/X? should be /dev/ad1s*
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       serious
>Priority:       high
>Responsible:    freebsd-i386
>State:          closed
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:  
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Sun Jul 24 18:00:28 GMT 2005
>Closed-Date:    Fri Mar 02 10:58:34 GMT 2007
>Last-Modified:  Fri Mar 02 10:58:34 GMT 2007
>Originator:     Jayton Garnett
>Release:        6.0 Beta 1
>Organization:
>Environment:
None as it wont install.
>Description:
While trying to install 6.0 Beta 1 with the install CD's and assigning/creating the partition it is displayed as /dev/X where it should be /dev/ad1s* this causes the install too fail as it can not acctually create the partition at /dev/X when I try commit.

I have a western digital 250gb ATA100 hard drive as a master drive on the second IDE/ATA channel. My motherboard has the old VT233A chipset.
>How-To-Repeat:
This is repeated everytime I try to install 6.0 Beta 1
>Fix:
No idea how to fix this.
>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:

From: Jayton Garnett <jay@codegurus.org>
To: bug-followup@FreeBSD.org,  jay@codegurus.org
Cc:  
Subject: Re: i386/84008: /dev/X? should be /dev/ad1s*
Date: Sat, 30 Jul 2005 14:52:58 +0100

 I just tried again and found that if I 'delete' the other partitions and 
 create a new one of any size or use the full hard drive it will allocate 
 it as /dev/ad1s1, this
 does not help me as I need my other partitions for my other FreeBSD 
 installation and my NTFS/FAT32 backup volumes.
 
 -- 
 Kind regards,
 Jayton Garnett
 
 email: jay@codegurus.org
 Main : www.uberhacker.co.uk
 Test server: jayton.plus.com
 
 

From: Jayton Garnett <jay@codegurus.org>
To: jay@codegurus.org, bug-followup@FreeBSD.org
Cc:  
Subject: Re: i386/84008: /dev/X? should be /dev/ad1s*
Date: Tue, 02 Aug 2005 19:52:15 +0100

 I have just tried the FreeBSD 6.0 Beta 1 install floppies and I had the
 same problem as before. I want too help testing 6.0 Beta 1 but can not
 if it will not install.
 

From: "Kotiaho, Mark" <mark.kotiaho@lmco.com>
To: bug-followup@FreeBSD.org, jay@codegurus.org
Cc:  
Subject: Re: i386/84008: /dev/X? should be /dev/ad1s*
Date: Tue, 29 Aug 2006 09:18:43 -0500

 Jay,
 
 I think the problem is the BIOS limit of 4 primary partitions.
 You seem to be trying to create a 5th primary partition for FreeBSD.
 The BIOS won't support that -- you will have to either combine some
 of your NTFS partitions (i.e. use a "logical" partition instead of a
 primary partition), or get another drive. Sorry! I ran into the same
 problem yesterday!
 
 -- 
 Markku P. Kotiaho
 Software Engineer, Staff
 Lockheed Martin Missiles and Fire Control
 
 
State-Changed-From-To: open->closed 
State-Changed-By: remko 
State-Changed-When: Fri Mar 2 10:58:31 UTC 2007 
State-Changed-Why:  
5 partitions are not supported by the bios, thanks for the notification 
Robert! 

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=84008 
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