Date: Mon, 19 Jul 2010 18:11:54 -0700 (PDT) From: Rich <rl001@pacbell.net> To: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de>, Bruce Cran <bruce@cran.org.uk> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: system hangs on; "Probing devices, please wait (this can take a while)... " Message-ID: <633204.64834.qm@web81104.mail.mud.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <20100720013418.0b4c4210.freebsd@edvax.de> 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> <20100720013418.0b4c4210.freebsd@edvax.de>
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I couldn't find a live CD fro 8.0 Release. All I could find was at this site; http://livecd.sourceforge.net/download.php It's 4.6, is that useful? Anyway, it booted up to the login prompt without hanging. What does that tell us? Is there anything I can check with this disk or is there somewhere I can get the 8.0 live CD? ________________________________ From: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> To: Bruce Cran <bruce@cran.org.uk> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Rich <rl001@pacbell.net> Sent: Mon, July 19, 2010 4:34:18 PM Subject: Re: system hangs on; "Probing devices, please wait (this can take a while)... " 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, ... _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"
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