From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Oct 4 16:51:32 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from hermes.toad.net (hermes.toad.net [162.33.130.251]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9BABB37B401 for ; Thu, 4 Oct 2001 16:51:28 -0700 (PDT) Received: from bears (jeremy@core18d135.dynamic-dialup.toad.net [162.33.188.135]) by hermes.toad.net (8.11.6/8.11.6) with SMTP id f94NpP908054; Thu, 4 Oct 2001 19:51:25 -0400 Received: by bears (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Fri, 5 Oct 2001 19:48:45 -0500 To: "clemz" Cc: Subject: Re: Install References: <000201c14ce5$b8ac35c0$e85e4d0c@clemzulinski> From: Jeremy Whetzel Date: 05 Oct 2001 19:48:45 -0500 In-Reply-To: <000201c14ce5$b8ac35c0$e85e4d0c@clemzulinski> Message-ID: <87lmip385u.fsf@yahoo.com> Lines: 15 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) Emacs/20.7 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG "clemz" writes: > In attempting to install Free BSD 4.4, I cannot get beyond the screen > that says "Probing Devices, please wait (this may take a while)". > > There is no disk activity whatsoever. I have tried all three kernel > configuration modes with the same result. I had the EXACT same thing to happen when I first tried out FreeBSD. It turned out that it had something to do with the order of my PCI cards, and somehow the probing it was doing on my system locked it up. I switched around a couple of my cards and it worked just fine. Give that a try and see if it helps. Jeremy To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message