"no root device found" while installing

K

kondziq

Hi,

I am trying to install FreeBSD on this: http://www.aaeon.com/newsletter/boxer/aec6820.html. It has however hard drive changed, because the original one was faulty. I have currently 160GB Samsung installed. BOIS sees the hard drive no problem.

After going through whole setting up process I get to the point when installer wants to start copying files. It comes up with a message asking if I'm sure I want to contunue and I confirm. At this point I get a message:

Code: 
no root device found - you must lable a partition as / in the lable editor

Next it says the same thing for SWAP.

I tried installing other systems and they work just fine, but still prefer FreeBSD. Any idea what could be causing that?

Thanks,
Konrad
 
I'm guessing you skipped one or more steps during the installation.
 
Hi,

No, I don't think so. It's not my first time installing FreeBSD. I'm pretty confident I did everything correctly.
 
What version of FreeBSD? PR kern/158637 suggests this may happen because of leftover GPT partition tables. Boot mfsBSD to run gpart on the new drive:
# gpart destroy -F [i]ad0[/i]
Replace ad0 with the appropriate drive name.
 
Hi,

8.2.

Thanks for the advise. I didn't use GPT before - this is a new HDD basically. Tried gpart anyway and didn't help.

An interesting thing may be that I managed to install FreeBSD using custom installation from sysinstall, however I was still not able to boot into the system. Perhaps standard install does something that custom doesn't include by default which is why all files get copied no problem...

Konrad
 
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