HEAD newfs/sysinstall issues

Randi Harper randi at freebsd.org
Thu Jul 30 18:23:19 UTC 2009


On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 3:26 PM, Barrett Lyon <blyon at blyon.com> wrote:

> I've been trying to get the current HEAD snapshot installed on an amd64 box
> that had some screwed up disk geometry from a previous install.
>
> When sysinstall runs newfs it complains that it's unable to locate the
> /dev/ad0x (replace x with whatever it was trying to newfs).  Seems like the
> partition does get created but does not become visible in /dev
>
> 7.X works fine.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> -B
>

Are you using dedicated disks?

-- randi


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