From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Sep 27 20:52:11 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E9BBB16A4B3 for ; Sat, 27 Sep 2003 20:52:11 -0700 (PDT) Received: from fep4.cogeco.net (smtp.cogeco.net [216.221.81.25]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 429974402B for ; Sat, 27 Sep 2003 20:52:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bbobowski@cogeco.ca) Received: from d150-57-33.home.cgocable.net (d150-57-33.home.cgocable.net [24.150.57.33]) by fep4.cogeco.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1C4CA707; Sat, 27 Sep 2003 23:52:10 -0400 (EDT) From: Brian Bobowski To: Monty , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Sat, 27 Sep 2003 23:52:03 -0400 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.3 References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-15" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200309272352.03298.bbobowski@cogeco.ca> Subject: Re: Install hang X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 28 Sep 2003 03:52:12 -0000 On September 27, 2003 10:26 pm, Monty wrote: > Just bought 4.6 stable w/security update disks (4 disk set) > Have tried to install with no success. > Kernel boots fine and have tried kernel params both auto and manual. Goes > to "Probing Hardware(This may take awhile)" screen and ceases progress. I > let it sit for 2 hours the last time with no results. Try changing your BIOS Plug-n-Play settings. If I remember correctly, when I installed, if I had PnP on, sysinstall would hang(before or after install), but with it off, sysinstall proceeds as normal. Or maybe I have it backwards. I'm really not sure... Try swapping that setting, though. -BB