Date: Tue, 20 Jul 2010 01:34:18 +0200 From: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> To: Bruce Cran <bruce@cran.org.uk> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, Rich <rl001@pacbell.net> Subject: Re: system hangs on; "Probing devices, please wait (this can take a while)... " Message-ID: <20100720013418.0b4c4210.freebsd@edvax.de> In-Reply-To: <20100720001627.00005ebe@unknown> References: <680862.29144.qm@web81107.mail.mud.yahoo.com> <20100719230532.00006ace@unknown> <285052.53021.qm@web81105.mail.mud.yahoo.com> <20100720005958.d82c5a97.freebsd@edvax.de> <20100720001627.00005ebe@unknown>
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On Tue, 20 Jul 2010 00:16:27 +0100, Bruce Cran <bruce@cran.org.uk> wrote: > On Tue, 20 Jul 2010 00:59:58 +0200 > Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> wrote: > > > I would suggest to boot with the live system CD, e. g. of 8.0-RELEASE. > > It should not launch sysinstall automatically (you can even boot the > > CD into SUM), so you end up with a regular shell. First, check all > > the kernel's output for things that look... strange... and maybe you > > even decide to install the system without sysinstall (if THAT is > > what's causing all the trouble). > > Unfortunately the LiveFS CD does run sysinstall by default - you need > to go to the Fixit menu to get the shell. Yes - that's what I intended to suggest. :-) -- Polytropon Magdeburg, Germany Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ...
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