Date: Mon, 19 Jul 2010 20:23:31 -0700 (PDT) From: Rich <rl001@pacbell.net> To: Ryan Coleman <ryan.coleman@cwis.biz> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: system hangs on; "Probing devices, please wait (this can take a while)... " Message-ID: <509194.92026.qm@web81102.mail.mud.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <126CDA6C-B967-4466-8C0E-EEC88672BE9C@cwis.biz> References: <680862.29144.qm@web81107.mail.mud.yahoo.com> <20100719230532.00006ace@unknown> <285052.53021.qm@web81105.mail.mud.yahoo.com> <20100720005958.d82c5a97.freebsd@edvax.de> <20100720001627.00005ebe@unknown> <20100720013418.0b4c4210.freebsd@edvax.de> <633204.64834.qm@web81104.mail.mud.yahoo.com> <126CDA6C-B967-4466-8C0E-EEC88672BE9C@cwis.biz>
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Ok I booted on that disc and it hangs at the same place. not sure what to do next. What is the "fixit" menu? ________________________________ From: Ryan Coleman <ryan.coleman@cwis.biz> To: Rich <rl001@pacbell.net> Sent: Mon, July 19, 2010 6:23:45 PM Subject: Re: system hangs on; "Probing devices, please wait (this can take a while)... " Rich, Here they are: 8.0 i386: ftp://ftp11.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ISO-IMAGES-i386/8.0/8.0-RELEASE-i386-livefs.iso 8.0 AMD64: ftp://ftp11.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ISO-IMAGES-amd64/8.0/8.0-RELEASE-amd64-livefs.iso Each is < 640MB On Jul 19, 2010, at 8:11 PM, Rich wrote: > I couldn't find a live CD fro 8.0 Release. All I could find was at this site; > > http://livecd.sourceforge.net/download.php > > It's 4.6, is that useful? Anyway, it booted up to the login prompt without > hanging. What does that tell us? Is there anything I can check with this disk >or > > is there somewhere I can get the 8.0 live CD? > > > > ________________________________ > From: Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> > To: Bruce Cran <bruce@cran.org.uk> > Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Rich <rl001@pacbell.net> > Sent: Mon, July 19, 2010 4:34:18 PM > Subject: Re: system hangs on; "Probing devices, please wait (this can take a > while)... " > > On Tue, 20 Jul 2010 00:16:27 +0100, Bruce Cran <bruce@cran.org.uk> wrote: >> On Tue, 20 Jul 2010 00:59:58 +0200 >> Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> wrote: >> >>> I would suggest to boot with the live system CD, e. g. of 8.0-RELEASE. >>> It should not launch sysinstall automatically (you can even boot the >>> CD into SUM), so you end up with a regular shell. First, check all >>> the kernel's output for things that look... strange... and maybe you >>> even decide to install the system without sysinstall (if THAT is >>> what's causing all the trouble). >> >> Unfortunately the LiveFS CD does run sysinstall by default - you need >> to go to the Fixit menu to get the shell. > > Yes - that's what I intended to suggest. :-) > > > > > -- > Polytropon > Magdeburg, Germany > Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 > Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"
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