Date: Tue, 7 Apr 1998 18:15:58 -0600 (MDT) From: Atipa <freebsd@atipa.com> To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> Cc: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@FreeBSD.ORG>, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Sysintstall probing hosed on -STABLE? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980407181325.14725B-100000@altrox.atipa.com> In-Reply-To: <19142.891997582@time.cdrom.com>
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> Hmmm. How are these IDE drives connected? In any order. I thought I had bad disks (or non-cooperating), so I tried every combination possible. I wasted lots o' time :(... I finally waited the 3 minutes to get an error message, but none came; it was fine! If I had been patient the first time, I am sure it would have worked too. Tried w/ 1 drive, 2 drives (MASTER/SLAVE and also 1MASTER/2MASTER). Kevin > > I am installing STABLE (SNAP 0404), and everytime sysinstall starts up on > > boot, it takes over 3 minutes to get through the 'Probing devices, please > > wait...' screen. > > > > This as been on 2 totally different machines. What the do have in common: > > Fujitsu IDE hard drives, Adaptec SCSI cards (removing does not change > > anything), and Award BIOS for PPro. Different mobos (one AT, other ATX; > > one Gigabyte, one ASUS). > > > > Anyone else find this behavior? Everything runs fine after it times out or > > whatever. The whole time the hard drives sound like you are doing a > > 'find /usr/ports' :) > > > > Kevin > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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