Re: installer unable to find device node

From: Martin Smith <mjs_at_rakupottery.org.uk>
Date: Wed, 20 Oct 2010 18:38:27 +0100
On 20/10/2010 18:28, Bruce Cran wrote:
> 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?

It was previously attached to a mac, do I need to zero out the partition 
table?

>

-- 
Martin
Received on Wed Oct 20 2010 - 15:38:28 UTC

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