mounting error /mnt/dev/ad0s1f on /mnt/usr : Input/output error

[Sajith K]

my disk has the following geometry:
   9729 cyl/255 head/64 sectors

when i used fdisk from linux, i got a warning that 
cyl is > 1024 which may not work correctly with 
fdisk of win and os/2. is this the case with freebsd ?

thanks
sajith

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i did create the slices using default option (A)
and partions using default option (A).

now i see the following problem:

"mounting error /mnt/dev/ad0s1f on /mnt/usr :
Input/output error"

i think it is the problem with the disk geometry 
i don't know what. i have a 80GB disk, and i tried 
changing the mode from LBA to NORMAL to LARGE in the 
BIOS setting but it didn't help. /usr is the the
last partition in the default list of partiontions.

thanks in advance for your time

sajith

--- Lowell Gilbert
<freebsd-questions-local at be-well.ilk.org> wrote:

> Sajith K <ksajith at yahoo.com> writes:
> 
> > When I tried to install freebsd 5.3 in a PIII
> machine
> > with 80GB hard disk I get the following error:
> > 
> > "Unable to find device node for /dev/ad0s1b in
> /dev!"
> > "The creation of filesystems will be aborted"
> > 
> > Could some one help me out ?
> 
> Sounds like you forgot to allocate (and commit) the
> slices before you
> tried to create the partitions...
> 




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