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From: Tim Howe <thowe@bendtel.net>
To: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org
Subject: 8.0 install fails from USB memstick because /dev/da0s1b is missing
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>Number:         141652
>Category:       misc
>Synopsis:       [install] 8.0 install fails from USB memstick because /dev/da0s1b is missing
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    gavin
>State:          feedback
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:  
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Tue Dec 15 20:00:12 UTC 2009
>Closed-Date:    
>Last-Modified:  Mon Jan 11 09:44:42 UTC 2010
>Originator:     Tim Howe
>Release:        8.0 release
>Organization:
>Environment:
>Description:
When attempting an install from a USB stick, when it comes time to build the file systems and copy packages, an error saying the device node /dev/da0s1b (the swap partition, it would seem) is missing.
>How-To-Repeat:

>Fix:


>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
State-Changed-From-To: open->feedback 
State-Changed-By: gavin 
State-Changed-When: Tue Dec 15 21:58:23 UTC 2009 
State-Changed-Why:  
To submitter: are you trying to install over a previous install 
of FreeBSD, and if so, was that install done using the 
"dangerously dedicated" option originally?  If so, please see 
PR bin/140900. 

If that is not the case, can you give a little more detail about 
exactly how you have got to this point?  Quite a few people have 
used the memstick image with success, so it'd be useful to try to 
determine what you are doing differently.  For example, are you 
adding a swap partition while setting up the disk partitions, or 
not? 


Responsible-Changed-From-To: freebsd-bugs->gavin 
Responsible-Changed-By: gavin 
Responsible-Changed-When: Tue Dec 15 21:58:23 UTC 2009 
Responsible-Changed-Why:  
Track 

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=141652 

From: Tim Howe <thowe@bendtel.net>
To: gavin@FreeBSD.org
Cc:  
Subject: Re: misc/141652: 8.0 install fails from USB memstick because
 /dev/da0s1b is missing
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 2009 17:05:11 -0800

 On Tue, 15 Dec 2009 22:01:53 GMT
 gavin@FreeBSD.org wrote:
 
 > Synopsis: 8.0 install fails from USB memstick because /dev/da0s1b is missing
 > 
 > State-Changed-From-To: open->feedback
 > State-Changed-By: gavin
 > State-Changed-When: Tue Dec 15 21:58:23 UTC 2009
 > State-Changed-Why: 
 > To submitter: are you trying to install over a previous install
 > of FreeBSD, and if so, was that install done using the
 > "dangerously dedicated" option originally?  If so, please see
 > PR bin/140900.
 
 	I don't think so.  I do not know about that option.
 
 > If that is not the case, can you give a little more detail about
 > exactly how you have got to this point?  Quite a few people have
 > used the memstick image with success, so it'd be useful to try to
 > determine what you are doing differently.  For example, are you
 > adding a swap partition while setting up the disk partitions, or
 > not?
 
 	This is a fresh install to a 1.5TB drive (Raid 6).  I tried with a USB
 CDROM, but it couldn't see the drive was there after boot.  I tried with FTP
 install, but then it failed to resolve the FTP host (I commented on another PR
 that seems to already have this issue in it).  So then I set up an all new
 partition setup with a USB drive, but it failed in the described fashion.
 
 	I created a swap partition (always make it the first partition),
 also /, /tmp, /var, /usr, and /home.  This is pretty typical of my setups, but
 I don't think I have ever done one on a drive this big.  I also noticed when I
 dropped to a fixit shell that it doesn't appear to see the partitions as the
 right sizes.  Is >1TB a problem?
 
 --TimH
 
>Unformatted:
