FreeBSD 8.x 200902 snapshot Unable to find device node

[Saifi Khan]

On Thu, 26 Mar 2009, Saifi Khan wrote:

> Hi:
> 
> Trying to install FreeBSD 8.x 200902 snapshot from a DVD media
> on a i386 box and i encounter this error dialog after selecting
> distribution set.
> 
> "Unable to find device node for /dev/ad4s2b in /dev!
>  The creation of filesystems will be aborted"
> 
> Any suggestions on a possible workaround ?
> 

The disk is 160GB SATA disk with two slices
slice1 : 35G : OpenBSD (166)
slice2 : 45G : FreeBSD (165)

(Weird) the above mentioned error is only encountered if FreeBSD
is the second slice. What could be the reason ? All pointers are
welcome.


thanks
Saifi.