Date: Thu, 22 Jul 2010 13:50:58 -0500 From: Ryan Coleman <ryan.coleman@cwis.biz> To: Rich <rl001@pacbell.net> Cc: User Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: system hangs on; "Probing devices, please wait (this can take a while)... " Message-ID: <4264734A-9755-498C-8619-AD937BEE547A@cwis.biz> In-Reply-To: <881133.14556.qm@web81103.mail.mud.yahoo.com> References: <4c48013d.gPNiF4msgxiXzWRV%mueller6727@bellsouth.net> <9CAC47BC-6209-4B09-9522-85FC11DECDC5@cwis.biz> <881133.14556.qm@web81103.mail.mud.yahoo.com>
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Then you can suffer through "crappy windows" or spend $50 on a hard = drive...=20 On Jul 22, 2010, at 1:15 PM, Rich wrote: > No I'm not going to start ripping my computer apart because FreeBSD = can't deal=20 > with my hard drive. I think the problem is a shortcoming in FreeBSD = where it=20 > can't deal with drives that have old stale RAID metadata on them. I'm = just going=20 > to have to wait until they can. Until then no FreeBSD for me. Back to = crappy=20 > windows. >=20 >=20 >=20 >=20 > ________________________________ > From: Ryan Coleman <ryan.coleman@cwis.biz> > To: User Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> > Sent: Thu, July 22, 2010 7:19:28 AM > Subject: Re: system hangs on; "Probing devices, please wait (this can = take a=20 > while)... " >=20 > I agree, but I might start pulling parts and see if it works then. = swap video=20 > cards if you can, etc. >=20 > On Jul 22, 2010, at 3:28 AM, Thomas Mueller wrote: >=20 >> Rich, if you can't get either the installation CD or live-file-system = CD to=20 >> 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. =20 >>=20 >> 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. >>=20 >> You might read the sysinstall man page from FreeBSD web site. Under = NOTES >>=20 >> This product is currently at the end of its life cycle and will = eventu- >> ally be replaced. >>=20 >> Under BUGS, toward the end >>=20 >> This utility is a prototype which lasted several years past its = expira- >> tion date and is greatly in need of death. >>=20 >> 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,=20 >> 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. >>=20 >> 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" >=20 > _______________________________________________ > 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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