From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Apr 30 12:48:15 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from www.abbotts.org (www.abbotts.org [206.9.120.200]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BAD1D155C3 for ; Fri, 30 Apr 1999 12:48:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jabbott@abbotts.org) Received: from reaper.northfield.com (pmnort2-86.rconnect.com [209.163.34.86]) by www.abbotts.org (8.9.2/8.9.2) with SMTP id OAA34826; Fri, 30 Apr 1999 14:22:44 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from jabbott@abbotts.org) From: abbott in Northfield Reply-To: jabbott@abbotts.org To: Theodore Hope Subject: Re: freeze on probing devices Date: Fri, 30 Apr 1999 14:38:32 -0500 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.0.17] Content-Type: text/plain Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG References: <199904301911.NAA03747@iguana.internexo.co.cr> MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <9904301449470J.01771@reaper.northfield.com> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-KMail-Mark: Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG What I figured out (so far) is FreeBSD does not like the ST32132A hard drive as a master. oops, install just died again, maybe it doesn't like it at all. What I did was dug around the juck pile until I found an old seagate 245 meg drive and installed it as the only hard drive. The device probe worked just fine. Then I installed the ST32132A as a slave and started over. Again the device probe worked ok. Now the trouble is when I get to the part which is the FreeBSD disklabel editor it reports wd1, wd1s1 as 7225281 blocks or 3527Meg. but the drive is only a 2113. Does anyone know if I can fix this by changing the drive geometry somehow? --ja On Fri, 30 Apr 1999, Theodore Hope wrote: > > I have a gateway 2000 G-6 200 (200mhz Pentium Pro). It has in it > > a Seagate ST32132A IDE 2 gig hard drive, 3c509 and ATI video. I > > have had it running BSDi for the past year but want to convert it > > to run FreeBSD 3.1. When I run the install it seems to see > > everything just fine. Everything seems normal but then when I get > > to "probing devices, please wait" it locks up. I can't Alt-F2 and > > I can't Ctrl-Alt-Del. > > I'm having a very similar problem. No frills Packard Bell (Pentium 75), > IDE disk (Seagate 1GB), and a 3com 3c509 ISA. Not even a CD or > special video. Hangs during device probe, both with 2.2.8-stable > and 3.1-release. > > It's been running BSD/OS (BSDI) for almost two years. And I always > thought that BSDI was more finicky than FreeBSD was! > > (If you make progress, pls let us know!) > > -T. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message