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Date: Sat, 10 Sep 2005 10:05:16 GMT
From: Hilarie Orman <ho@cs.arizona.edu>
To: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org
Subject: Install fails, unable to write partitions
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>Number:         85938
>Category:       i386
>Synopsis:       Install fails, unable to write partitions
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       serious
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    gavin
>State:          closed
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:  
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Sat Sep 10 10:10:18 GMT 2005
>Closed-Date:    Tue Apr 22 12:29:45 UTC 2008
>Last-Modified:  Tue Apr 22 12:29:45 UTC 2008
>Originator:     Hilarie Orman
>Release:        5.4
>Organization:
>Environment:
>Description:
      I am installing from the 5.4 CD ISO, disk 1.  The machine is the
i386 class, the ASUSRock K7S41GX with a fresh Seagate Barracuda disk,
300 GB.  I have tried using the whole disk and automatic partitions.
The installation first complains that the disk geometry is wrong (it
finds the geometry with no help from me), but proceeds with creating the
FreeBSD partitions.  It accepts the other configuration data, and finally
fails when it tries to write the FreeBSD partitions:

Unable to find device node for /dev/ad0s1b in /dev!

When viewed from Linux the geometry is the same, and the OS has no
trouble writing partitions.  FreeBSD can then see the partitions on boot,
but gets the same error as when the disk was fresh out of the box.

>How-To-Repeat:
      
>Fix:
      
>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
State-Changed-From-To: open->feedback 
State-Changed-By: gavin 
State-Changed-When: Tue Feb 19 16:56:59 UTC 2008 
State-Changed-Why:  
To submitter:  Firstly, I'm sorry that this PR has sat for so long without 
anyone looking at it.  Can you tell me, is this still a problem with newer 
versions of FreeBSD? 


Responsible-Changed-From-To: freebsd-i386->gavin 
Responsible-Changed-By: gavin 
Responsible-Changed-When: Tue Feb 19 16:56:59 UTC 2008 
Responsible-Changed-Why:  
Track 

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=85938 
State-Changed-From-To: feedback->closed 
State-Changed-By: gavin 
State-Changed-When: Tue Apr 22 12:22:56 UTC 2008 
State-Changed-Why:  
Feedback timeout (2 months).  To submitter:  If you do still see 
this problem, we can reopen this PR. 

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=85938 
>Unformatted:
