Date: Tue, 07 Apr 1998 18:20:49 -0700 From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com> To: Atipa <freebsd@atipa.com> Cc: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@FreeBSD.ORG>, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Sysintstall probing hosed on -STABLE? Message-ID: <19305.891998449@time.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 07 Apr 1998 18:15:58 MDT." <Pine.BSF.3.96.980407181325.14725B-100000@altrox.atipa.com>
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Hmmmm. This is very odd - I can't think of any reason why it would wait, nor does it wait anywhere near that long on my 2 IDE/1 SCSI drive spambox. Hmmmmm. *shug*? :-) Jordan > > > > 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 o r > > > 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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