Bug 84008

Summary:	/dev/X? should be /dev/ad1s*
Product:	Base System	Reporter:	Jayton Garnett <jay>
Component:	i386	Assignee:	freebsd-i386 (Nobody) <i386>
Status:	Closed FIXED
Severity:	Affects Only Me
Priority:	Normal
Version:	Unspecified
Hardware:	Any
OS:	Any

Description Jayton Garnett 2005-07-24 19:00:28 UTC

While trying to install 6.0 Beta 1 with the install CD's and assigning/creating the partition it is displayed as /dev/X where it should be /dev/ad1s* this causes the install too fail as it can not acctually create the partition at /dev/X when I try commit.

I have a western digital 250gb ATA100 hard drive as a master drive on the second IDE/ATA channel. My motherboard has the old VT233A chipset.

Fix: 

No idea how to fix this.
How-To-Repeat: This is repeated everytime I try to install 6.0 Beta 1

Comment 1 Jayton Garnett 2005-07-30 14:52:58 UTC

I just tried again and found that if I 'delete' the other partitions and 
create a new one of any size or use the full hard drive it will allocate 
it as /dev/ad1s1, this
does not help me as I need my other partitions for my other FreeBSD 
installation and my NTFS/FAT32 backup volumes.

-- 
Kind regards,
Jayton Garnett

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Comment 2 Jayton Garnett 2005-08-02 19:52:15 UTC

I have just tried the FreeBSD 6.0 Beta 1 install floppies and I had the
same problem as before. I want too help testing 6.0 Beta 1 but can not
if it will not install.

Comment 3 mark.kotiaho 2006-08-29 15:18:43 UTC

Jay,

I think the problem is the BIOS limit of 4 primary partitions.
You seem to be trying to create a 5th primary partition for FreeBSD.
The BIOS won't support that -- you will have to either combine some
of your NTFS partitions (i.e. use a "logical" partition instead of a
primary partition), or get another drive. Sorry! I ran into the same
problem yesterday!

-- 
Markku P. Kotiaho
Software Engineer, Staff
Lockheed Martin Missiles and Fire Control

Comment 4 Remko Lodder freebsd_committer

2007-03-02 10:58:31 UTC

State Changed
From-To: open->closed

5 partitions are not supported by the bios, thanks for the notification 
Robert!