From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Aug 2 11:14:18 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA04632 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sun, 2 Aug 1998 11:14:18 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from post.mail.demon.net (post-11.mail.demon.net [194.217.242.40]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id LAA04626 for ; Sun, 2 Aug 1998 11:14:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jeremy@archaeopteryx.demon.co.uk) Received: from ([194.222.202.132]) [194.222.202.132] by post.mail.demon.net with esmtp (Exim 1.82 #2) id 0z32dv-00032P-00; Sun, 2 Aug 1998 18:14:03 +0000 X-Sender: archaeopteryx@pop3.demon.co.uk Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Sun, 2 Aug 1998 19:16:14 +0100 To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG From: Jeremy Johnson Subject: Probing devices, please wait.. (?) Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi, Installation question.. I'm trying to install FreeBSD 2.2.6 (from the Walnut Creek CD-ROM) on a Dell PC (Pentium II/400Mhx/64Mb with standard 6GB IDE HD and ATAPI CD-ROM plus S3 Virge card - which the doc's say FreeBSD does support). When installing from CD-ROM (via direct booting at startup) I get to a blue screen with 'Probing devices, please wait..' and then it just sits there. (I once tried leaving it for an hour like that, but it didn't do anything). How do I get around this problem? I though it might be a disk format problem (there's a 3GB Windows NT partition on it, which I'm not using, I promise ;-) but I've tried it with the other half of the disk as DOS FAT, as free space and even once as a Linux native partition, all with no luck, it always stops at the same point, although I did get setup.exe to copy the installation files across to the DOS partition. I'd have no problem with erasing the whole disk if that would help, but I can't imagine that it would make any difference? With so few clues to go on it's hard to see what to try next. Any suggestions would be much appreciated.. Jeremy. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message