From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jul 22 18:15:25 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 5F153106568F for ; Thu, 22 Jul 2010 18:15:25 +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 E1B608FC12 for ; Thu, 22 Jul 2010 18:15:24 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 14884 invoked by uid 60001); 22 Jul 2010 18:15:24 -0000 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=pacbell.net; s=s1024; t=1279822523; bh=FrUebNbWwPOYr5TpRW0c+AgdDxU/PZs9TkM6ZwArPMk=; h=Message-ID:X-YMail-OSG:Received:X-Mailer:References:Date:From:Subject:To:In-Reply-To:MIME-Version:Content-Type; b=qcJYkZxe1ECYMGbG3h5H8wNOQv5pk/da2vmCw+u71y4mUSS7ZkqMMcppF5BAH4mZPX08PXy5yDvdiopiFXrO3M1RC6uSsSN0LhLMBm8/TiRfwPVYBOjDJcHq0+PSvBJhzBjxbt7KXlPBQvPagwkMyhV4ewFK67/CE+wKnQpN2wo= 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:In-Reply-To:MIME-Version:Content-Type; b=ui5xyxlLzHkGk5QO6MKSov2ouaAg59kqMgciD0muXzjrc1dlRoF9BJZ14X0sBj1oOgl2mq4QDXTHf39DElnM6LWmvrGBEgmbtwGZNE5DcwVqTT072Sz9tL5F6dK+V65dHIi/vKaHTAnfolYjPaCWblT1CPje9wcj7ErzpoUa1CQ=; Message-ID: <881133.14556.qm@web81103.mail.mud.yahoo.com> X-YMail-OSG: KfAiU.YVM1nF5TUgpZQYWPSyUqX3uRaaUl76_0WSfiJwJPg yyNNcPdtWIURohcD5j0DkZJ4bQNlUir8QLY_DzpI3oJ6gwBkGkF4cXNXxxaJ ZaKhEGv0wzECdhNPdmoNJoQyB3QgmlHouIRlqwFb67zyKrVs4Ji99lXmZhEi y8fI2bulWStiWaSyUFce.pE1jEFJXR_EoiqdPiRabj5G2Zlsa2n.9q_j7WHw Sh2xB7qDY9klnbzYXAQdgiLyYwlBtS62vwUigx0jBjUGtIufb0r9B09tWVl4 wlZ0jz8FEpy1N_jikFUAMnCBvoy.vsp_sDJgekHunAjqpECxCasupQUWQZeS GoTABOf945g-- Received: from [71.139.177.219] by web81103.mail.mud.yahoo.com via HTTP; Thu, 22 Jul 2010 11:15:23 PDT X-Mailer: YahooMailRC/420.4 YahooMailWebService/0.8.104.276605 References: <4c48013d.gPNiF4msgxiXzWRV%mueller6727@bellsouth.net> <9CAC47BC-6209-4B09-9522-85FC11DECDC5@cwis.biz> Date: Thu, 22 Jul 2010 11:15:23 -0700 (PDT) From: Rich To: Ryan Coleman , User Questions In-Reply-To: <9CAC47BC-6209-4B09-9522-85FC11DECDC5@cwis.biz> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 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 18:15:25 -0000 No I'm not going to start ripping my computer apart because FreeBSD can't deal with my hard drive. I think the problem is a shortcoming in FreeBSD where it can't deal with drives that have old stale RAID metadata on them. I'm just going to have to wait until they can. Until then no FreeBSD for me. Back to crappy windows. ________________________________ From: Ryan Coleman To: User Questions Sent: Thu, July 22, 2010 7:19:28 AM Subject: Re: system hangs on; "Probing devices, please wait (this can take a while)... " I agree, but I might start pulling parts and see if it works then. swap video cards if you can, etc. On Jul 22, 2010, at 3:28 AM, Thomas Mueller wrote: > 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 > _______________________________________________ > 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"