I ran into this familiar problem tonight while trying to do a fresh
install of 6.0 - the one where during the install process you can
successfully create a slice, but then fail to create the partitions. The
error when one attempts to write out the partition table is "Unable to
find device node /dev/da0s1b in /dev!" After successfully installing
Ubuntu on the same box (and having run FreeBSD 4.x on it for years) I
figured out it wasn't a hardware or even disk geometry problem.
The problem must lie in devfs or in the initialization of the miniroot
environment. After the successful disklabel (one big partition type 165)
I skipped the partition editor and started a fixit shell. /dev/md0 was
mounted as /. I don't know if that's how it is during a partition edit,
but I noticed that the only da0 devices in /dev were da0s1a and da0s1c.
I don't know enough "mknod" magic or whatever is used to create additional
device handles in /dev these days; as a naive installer I shouldn't have
to. I went back to the partition editor, created one big partition,
da0s1a, and didn't bother creating a swap or secondary partition. The
write succeeded, and I could proceed to install FreeBSD 6.0.
Since none of the previous attempts at addressing this problem seemed to
come up with a clear answer, I thought I would add this information to the
fray; it's not a question to be answered but it might help someone who
hits this problem again. Or it might even lead to a fix by someone who
understands how the installation scripts are supposed to work.
Brian
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