Cylinder geometry problem - Unable to find device node

[Michael C. Shultz]

On Saturday 16 April 2005 12:20 pm, Ευστάθιος Καμπέρης wrote:
> Hello to everyone :)
>
> In an attempt to install FreeBSD 5.4-RC2, I encountered (except for many
> other things :p) the following problem:
>
> There is a disagreement as fas as the cylinder geometry of my hard disk is
> concercned, beetwen BIOS and FreeBSD. Sysinstall asks me to adjust it
> appropriately, but when I do so, the installation process terminates with
> an error: "Unable to find device node for /dev/X in /dev". I flashed my
> BIOS with the latest update but it didn't seem to help.
>
> In the same disk I have Linux and Windows XP installed.
>
> Thank you a lot,
> Stathis K.
>
> P.S. In case it's a trivial matter, forgive my ignorance.

By any chance is this a SATA drive? If so I had the same problem, the
only way to get sysinstall to partition it was to use the latest version of 
sysinstall from a fresh buildworld, the sysinstall located in /usr/sbin 
not /stand.  It worked even though there was still the warning message.

-Mike