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Old November 26th, 2005, 12:39 PM
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Freebsd says hard drive isn't right
On my computer I try to install freebsd and it says that the hard drive can't be found, like it will go through the hole install like i can select all the things i want to install and partion the disk, but as soon as its done duing that it goes to the screen and says formating and then it pops up saying:

Unable to find device node for /dev/ad0s1b in /dev!
the creatin of filesystems will be aborted

any idea on how I can fix that?
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Old November 26th, 2005, 01:37 PM
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Sounds like a buggy install disc.
Are you using any special hardware, eg. a raid or scsi controller?
Anyways, which FreeBSD version are you using? Did you try "safe mode" (no ACPI)?

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