installer unable to find device node

[Bruce Cran]

On Wed, 20 Oct 2010 18:06:08 +0100
Martin Smith <mjs at rakupottery.org.uk> wrote:

> I am attempting to install a recent snapshot on a Biostar GF7100P-M7S 
> mobo, with an atapi cdrom and on sata hd, after setting up the slices 
> and selecting the install medium I am presented with the following
> error:
> 
> Unable to find device node for ad4s1b in dev! The creation of 
> filesystems will be aborted.
> 
> This also happened with an 8.0 installer, is this just me, is there 
> something funny about this motherboard?

Has the HDD previously been partitioned using GPT, or something other
than a traditional MBR?

-- 
Bruce Cran