From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jul 20 14:47:59 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 085301065675 for ; Tue, 20 Jul 2010 14:47:59 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rl001@pacbell.net) Received: from web81103.mail.mud.yahoo.com (web81103.mail.mud.yahoo.com [68.142.199.95]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id BC9308FC1D for ; Tue, 20 Jul 2010 14:47:58 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 2821 invoked by uid 60001); 20 Jul 2010 14:47:58 -0000 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=pacbell.net; s=s1024; t=1279637278; bh=mbgfTwY6qY/Zfsw+HKheQQzYGdbEAhWSHPrbxc8HdZo=; h=Message-ID:X-YMail-OSG:Received:X-Mailer:References:Date:From:Subject:To:Cc:In-Reply-To:MIME-Version:Content-Type; b=PDSUo6aA/7znnVmLtjtbXkYX+mxRISgfpltqPqupSlE8T+T9d3QKbkDIjajjD8Dmy4JaMYffEeZbaSRMB9gYZU3iwIpJL4B5NKMdTT6f9kR3nfT+Yw8Qh0+07CELEPLFPps7cCit6RNwE9bqWoTJqmuJ5Diheum3p4Wk4yVKpwU= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=pacbell.net; h=Message-ID:X-YMail-OSG:Received:X-Mailer:References:Date:From:Subject:To:Cc:In-Reply-To:MIME-Version:Content-Type; b=ojS9bMGrQvyrDeKqPb5Ja5LRYy4iFRSXKtEDgZ2bLLUw5GJr/MtG/MDX0HNk67Wi4GykhMHzh8QbhjbZzZxgUuJJHTkWBD7OVW9veMXLicbQ5sqtmgNtJNEsptaiWq1+XQkmUqb9t6I1t9Dwm/0SwfRA/uukCx5gC4JqlGZ+/5A=; Message-ID: <104481.2568.qm@web81103.mail.mud.yahoo.com> X-YMail-OSG: Pkt2RxQVM1logA6ESxC651_aK_ZyBeEBExVY7MhaQm6ROmk VCss110jRXftWut29PPHEWnP5ZTqxWANZbFY8MplBknawe.xBVaCYcfRk_LS EjyvzIlK3Jj3AGFtOvjNwsvU9V.x_3ZxqB7pwyxV.Zx4pu6JaRIXMJ5W4pZW jr11rpz_oWZpsxht7fOmnMlg4PaFggU9Y3yxypBKcZEl3Qf2x0Uz3jlmOXlJ HC6vvcchvtA0aBOhhibDfBWOxguiFPRyvMRsk0_GDuN4XSyo_qVFJZs0obwb 4EIIph4fVteNp4hlUuCIOdwGUN9yAXPRSbwN6DQSD.aLqU7kEKYV_C9tkYqA 1ycQZECuBeA-- Received: from [71.139.182.122] by web81103.mail.mud.yahoo.com via HTTP; Tue, 20 Jul 2010 07:47:57 PDT X-Mailer: YahooMailRC/420.4 YahooMailWebService/0.8.104.276605 References: <680862.29144.qm@web81107.mail.mud.yahoo.com> <20100719230532.00006ace@unknown> <285052.53021.qm@web81105.mail.mud.yahoo.com> <76C2A9EE-BB8A-4D04-B10F-0B9B5F6AA1F3@mac.com> <20100720070948.00001fc6@unknown> Date: Tue, 20 Jul 2010 07:47:57 -0700 (PDT) From: Rich To: Randi Harper , Bruce Cran In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: FreeBSD - Subject: Re: system hangs on; "Probing devices, please wait (this can take a while)... " X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 20 Jul 2010 14:47:59 -0000 Disks are not bad. Works with other OSes. Problem is with FreeBSD. I've tried versions 4.6, 7.2, 8.0 and 9.0. Only FreeBSD 4.6 boots without hanging. I've not tried 5 or 6 but I guess I could if it would help to narrow down what the changes were in those versions. Something obviously changed along the way to cause it to hang. From: Randi Harper To: Bruce Cran Cc: Chuck Swiger ; FreeBSD - ; Rich Sent: Mon, July 19, 2010 11:19:06 PM Subject: Re: system hangs on; "Probing devices, please wait (this can take a while)... " On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 11:09 PM, Bruce Cran wrote: > On Mon, 19 Jul 2010 16:17:06 -0700 > Chuck Swiger wrote: > >> There's not quite enough information here to identify your >> motherboard, but you should make sure there aren't any BIOS upgrades >> available for it, as those might help resolve this level of issue. >> >> Check your BIOS config for the disks carefully, and try adjusting the >> options you have. In particular, try choosing LBA mode rather than >> auto or CHS, and try to toggle through "ACPI (or SATA mode)" vs. "IDE >> (or PATA compatibility)" vs. "enhanced (often meaning some form of >> BIOS RAID is enabled)" and see whether any of them work. >> >> If that doesn't do the trick, you could wander through your BIOS >> menus, and disable all of the non-essential stuff like parallel & >> serial ports, second NIC, or anything else which is not needed, and >> see whether that does any good...but that's getting into stuff which >> is less likely to make a difference. > > > The code that's being run does the following: > > 1. Finds all network interfaces. > 2. Finds all CDROM, floppy, disk and network devices that might be > needed for installation. > 3. Finds all partitions on the disks to register. > > I'd guess it's hanging on a syscall somewhere, but there really isn't > much debugging output in usr.sbin/sysinstall/devices.c to know where, > unless the kernel has printed some errors to the debug console. > > -- > Bruce Cran > _______________________________________________ > 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" > This is why I suspected #3 - maybe querying the disk and hanging because of bad disk? Hard to say without debug logs. -- randi