Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2001 00:10:01 -0700 (PDT) From: Peter Pentchev <roam@orbitel.bg> To: freebsd-bugs@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: i386/29052: Probing Devices, Please Wait forever... Message-ID: <200107180710.f6I7A1E94516@freefall.freebsd.org>
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The following reply was made to PR i386/29052; it has been noted by GNATS. From: Peter Pentchev <roam@orbitel.bg> To: Christopher Kenna <boarder1986@yahoo.com> Cc: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: i386/29052: Probing Devices, Please Wait forever... Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2001 09:55:07 +0300 On Tue, Jul 17, 2001 at 06:52:51PM -0700, Christopher Kenna wrote: > > >Number: 29052 > >Category: i386 > >Synopsis: Probing Devices, Please Wait forever... > >Originator: Christopher Kenna > >Release: 4.3 > >Description: > I downloaded the FreeBSD 4.3 ISO, burnt it, popped in the CD and booted from it, configured my kernel, and then I get the Probing Devices, Please Wait screen. The screen stares back at me ominously, like a blue screen of death for over 40 (yes forty) minutes. I pondered this and then asked a friend who has FreeBSD installed. He told me that his went by in two minutes. Distraught, I tried again to no avail. What is going on here, why does FreeBSD freeze at the Probing Hardware screen? Before you get to the 'Probing devices' screen, can you try going into the visual kernel configuration, and disabling any CD/HDD/Tape/whatever devices that you do not actually have? It just might be possible that a driver for some such device is trying to probe for its existence, and is somehow confusing your existing devices that happen to be configured with the same IRQ/port/DMA/whatever combination. G'luck, Peter -- This sentence would be seven words long if it were six words shorter. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-bugs" in the body of the message
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