From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jul 22 08:28:22 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 30DFB106564A for ; Thu, 22 Jul 2010 08:28:22 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from mueller6727@bellsouth.net) Received: from fmailhost05.isp.att.net (fmailhost05.isp.att.net [204.127.217.105]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1DE098FC15 for ; Thu, 22 Jul 2010 08:28:22 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mueller6722.bellsouth.net (adsl-210-187-30.sdf.bellsouth.net[68.210.187.30]) by isp.att.net (frfwmhc05) with SMTP id <20100722082820H0500hlm0ve>; Thu, 22 Jul 2010 08:28:21 +0000 X-Originating-IP: [68.210.187.30] Date: Thu, 22 Jul 2010 08:28:45 +0000 From: "Thomas Mueller" To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <4c48013d.gPNiF4msgxiXzWRV%mueller6727@bellsouth.net> User-Agent: Heirloom mailx 12.4 7/29/08 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: 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: Thu, 22 Jul 2010 08:28:22 -0000 Rich, if you can't get either the installation CD or live-file-system CD to boot (FreeBSD), maybe your computer is allergic to FreeBSD? I've had that problem with both FreeBSD and NetBSD on the older computer (Cx486DX-2 at 66 MHz; 1.2 GB hard drive). One thing that could possibly help is if you could get a custom installation kernel or running kernel, but you'd need a different computer to build it on. Any way to cross-compile a FreeBSD kernel from NetBSD or Linux? Does anybody know? NetBSD guide tells how to make customized installation kernels and media, but I see nothing like that for FreeBSD. You might read the sysinstall man page from FreeBSD web site. Under NOTES This product is currently at the end of its life cycle and will eventu- ally be replaced. Under BUGS, toward the end This utility is a prototype which lasted several years past its expira- tion date and is greatly in need of death. I guess you and I both agree on this last statement. I also have to say that splitting the installation sets into 1392 KB chunks like base.aa, base.ab, and so on, is much less user-friendly and more error-prone than one .tgz or .tbz file for each installation set: base.tgz, etc.tgz, man.tgz and so on. Tom