From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Apr 9 14:21:07 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id OAA14429 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 9 Apr 1998 14:21:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from orcas.foghead.com (orcas.foghead.com [192.147.160.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA14411 for ; Thu, 9 Apr 1998 14:20:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from junkins@foghead.com) Received: from localhost (junkins@localhost) by orcas.foghead.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id OAA01945; Thu, 9 Apr 1998 14:20:12 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 9 Apr 1998 14:20:11 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug Junkins X-Sender: junkins@orcas To: Doug White cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 2.2.6 install problem In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > After the system boots from the install disk and the blue screen with the > > "probing devices" messages comes up there is alot of disk activity. After > > a few seconds of disk activity the above kernel panic is displayed with a > > message that the system will reboot in 15 seconds (or press a key to abort > > the automatic reload). > > Okay, I see. Try booting and put -v on the Boot: prompt, then when the > Probing Devices .. message comes up hit ALT-F2. There's a bug I'm hunting > that makes the wd slice probe loop a ton of times, it may be biting you > in a different way. > Thanks. That pinpointed the problem. The verbose output showed the polling of my to ide drives then it failed with the message: wfd0: Sense the media type is failed I guessed that this had something to do with my ATAPI CDROM so I checked to see if there was a disc in there. When I checked, I found that my CDROM was dead. I disconnected the failed CDROM and was successful at begining the install. It's installing right now so we'll see how it works when it's complete. -Doug To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message