From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jan 7 16:57:56 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0CD18106566C for ; Wed, 7 Jan 2009 16:57:56 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bounces@nabble.com) Received: from kuber.nabble.com (kuber.nabble.com [216.139.236.158]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D0B568FC17 for ; Wed, 7 Jan 2009 16:57:55 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bounces@nabble.com) Received: from isper.nabble.com ([192.168.236.156]) by kuber.nabble.com with esmtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1LKbj8-0003kf-Ks for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Wed, 07 Jan 2009 08:57:54 -0800 Message-ID: <21335636.post@talk.nabble.com> Date: Wed, 7 Jan 2009 08:57:54 -0800 (PST) From: ideogon To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <21333686.post@talk.nabble.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Nabble-From: david@ideogon.com References: <21333686.post@talk.nabble.com> Subject: Re: During install: device Probe freezes after detecting Ethernet address X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 07 Jan 2009 16:57:56 -0000 I've actually been able to get past this part once. It continued into the installation menu. I was able to configure the system and then when I set it to boot from the CD/DVD, it said that the CD/DVD drive isn't supported. Did some Googling and apparently that even though the BIOS recognizes my DVD (and thus loaded the installation menu from it) doesn't mean that the FreeBSD installation recognizes my DVD drive. According to FreeBSD's site, it should recognize any ATAPI CD/DVD drive, which it is according to the BIOS. I went back into the BIOS and realized that the drive was being recognized, however, as slave and not master, so I reconnected it as slave (confirmed this in the BIOS) and rebooted, speculating that this is the underlying issue of FreeBSD not supporting my CD/DVD drive. However, now I cannot get past this point (after probing the Ethernet address) in the device probe in order to continue on to the FreeBSD installation menu. Any ideas...? -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/During-install%3A-device-Probe-freezes-after-detecting-Ethernet-address-tp21333686p21335636.html Sent from the freebsd-questions mailing list archive at Nabble.com.