Date: Wed, 05 May 1999 22:31:29 -0500 From: David Deaven <deaven@execpc.com> To: Theodore Hope <freebsd@iguana.internexo.co.cr> Cc: mnewell@newell.arlington.va.us (Mike Newell), dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 3.1 install hangs during probe Message-ID: <199905060324.WAA19107@pop01.execpc.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 05 May 1999 08:43:59 MDT." <199905051443.IAA17089@iguana.internexo.co.cr>
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FYI-- I recently had a 3.1 install hang during the "probing devices" screen. Switching virtual consoles (use alt-F1 and alt-F2) allowed me to see the error messages which identified the problem. I had a very old seagate IDE drive on my secondary controller which was causing the problem. This drive works fine after FreeBSD is installed (the machine used to run 2.2.6, 2.2.8, and now runs 3.1) but does not tolerate the probing done during install. If you have an ancient (>4yr) IDE drive in there you might try removing it. I was able to simply remove the secondary controller from the visual boot config, and that did the trick to get past the install probe. >> Yes - that was my problem. My MB BIOS was using IRQ12 for both the mouse >> and the PCI slots. Once I changed the PCI slots to use IRQ11 it fixed it. >> Of course, your situation is probably quite different; I was just relating >> my problem... > >Thanks for relating ;-) The BIOS on this machine isn't very configurable, >it seems. > > >> You pulled all the cards out 'cept the hard/floppy drive (which could, of >> course, be on the MB) right? > >I've been resisting doing that, but that's the next step. If I yank >the 3c509 and it gets past the probe freeze, then I'll know that's the >card, and will have to run out and get a NE2000 clone or something >(in my neck of the woods you can't just run out and get > > >> You could also try booting in verbose mode (-v I think) to see what's >> going on. That's what gave me my clue... > >I've been booting with "-dcv" (or is it "-dqv", can't remember because >the machine is currently up running BSDI) and I get _some_ clues, but >haven't solved the problem. > >I tried disabling the cache in the BIOS, so of course it ran slow >as hell, but still ended up in the same place. > >I'll keep you posted ;-/ Thanks, -T. > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > -- ------------------------------------- David Deaven deaven@execpc.com http://www.execpc.com/~deaven To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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