Date: Thu, 23 Nov 2000 20:02:19 -0500 From: "Craig" <craignws@tampabay.rr.com> To: <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Probing Devices Locks up Dell PC Message-ID: <NEBBJBJAELKEGCNJEBEPIEDPCAAA.craignws@tampabay.rr.com>
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A few days ago, I obtained the kern.flp and mfsroot.flp disks to install FreeBSD on my Dell PC -- a Pentium III/1000Mhz, 256 megs RAM. When I try to install FreeBSD, I get to the blue "probing devices" screen and my PC locks up. I can leave my PC on overnight and it will still be on the same screen the next morning. I've even gone into Windows and printed a System Resource Report of my current IRQ and port settings for each hardware device and then matched that information to the drivers screen in FreeBSD. I'm using two Intel Ultra ATA Controllers and am not using any SCSI devcies so I am disabling all of the SCSI drivers from the selection list. Also, I've tried disabling all of the drivers such as all of the network drivers, etc.(except the bare minimum like the floppy driver) and I still get stuck on the probing devices screen. Can anyone help me get by this problem? Pushing this reset button so many times is starting to get annoying because it reminds me so much of Windows! Thanks! Craig To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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