From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Apr 10 23:16:25 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id XAA08241 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Fri, 10 Apr 1998 23:16:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id XAA08234 for ; Fri, 10 Apr 1998 23:16:18 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.8) with SMTP id XAA28603; Fri, 10 Apr 1998 23:16:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Fri, 10 Apr 1998 23:16:16 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: Doug Junkins 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 On Thu, 9 Apr 1998, Doug Junkins wrote: > > 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 Funny, that's the IDE Removables driver (ZIP, LS-120). Shouldn't impact the ATAPI CDROM driver (wcd). > 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. Okay. I've known some CDs to put up fits; usually it's internal ZIPs. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message