Date: 03 Jan 2004 13:07:03 -0500 From: Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org> To: Mike Jeays <Mike.Jeays@rogers.com> Cc: freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Failure to probe devices Message-ID: <44k748j48o.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> In-Reply-To: <3FF6E6AB.5000504@rogers.com> References: <3FF6E6AB.5000504@rogers.com>
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Mike Jeays <Mike.Jeays@rogers.com> writes: > I have a Pentium 4 1.8 Ghz on an ASUS P4S533 motherboard. FreeBSD > 5.1 fails to install - it just hangs while probing for devices, and I > left it for > many minutes. There is no ZIP or JAZZ drive; just an IDE disk and > an LG CD-RW drive. > > This machine installs and runs FreeBSD 4.7 with no problems, and the CD > for 5.1 has been used successfully on other machines. Any clues, please? You don't provide much information here -- particularly for an "early adopters only" version of the OS. Does this still occur with 5.2? Did the suggestions in the 5.1-RELEASE errata help? Or even change anything at all? -- Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area: resume/CV at http://be-well.ilk.org:8088/~lowell/resume/ username/password "public"
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