Date: Tue, 7 Apr 1998 22:02:24 -0400 (EDT) From: Dexnation Holodream <dex@wankers.net> To: Atipa <freebsd@atipa.com> Cc: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>, freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Sysintstall probing hosed on -STABLE? Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980407220133.3695B-100000@localhost> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980407185224.14725C-100000@altrox.atipa.com>
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I've seen it still take forever to detect the ide stuff if the chains aren't full. that's what I've seen on 3 machines, so far that I've had it on. -Jon On Tue, 7 Apr 1998, Atipa wrote: > > All I had enabled were Floppy controller, 1 or both IDE controllers, lpt0, > sio1, syscons, etc., and the PCI. No ISA drivers (except FD and I/O). > > Was doing reinstall of FreeBSD; these machine both had FreeBSD on them > already, and I had no problems then. > > Kevin > > > On Tue, 7 Apr 1998, Dexnation Holodream wrote: > > > I've seen similar things...try configuring your kernel only for present > > controllers and drives. > > > > -Jon > > > > On Tue, 7 Apr 1998, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote: > > > > > 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 > > > > > > > > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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