From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jul 22 18:54:30 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 56D5C106566C for ; Thu, 22 Jul 2010 18:54:30 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rl001@pacbell.net) Received: from web81104.mail.mud.yahoo.com (web81104.mail.mud.yahoo.com [68.142.199.96]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 185AA8FC12 for ; Thu, 22 Jul 2010 18:54:29 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 97516 invoked by uid 60001); 22 Jul 2010 18:54:29 -0000 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=pacbell.net; s=s1024; t=1279824869; bh=ZGK3N9a0KBrskOiQMaZiHLHJTMy94UI3vgJQstr2v6E=; h=Message-ID:X-YMail-OSG:Received:X-Mailer:References:Date:From:Subject:To:Cc:In-Reply-To:MIME-Version:Content-Type; b=Z0D33dWd5/6wq4SBu9FA9D0tlno2S5jZSUvtnIESnvQF4pNA+IJlnMOuxVEQie77y8DbL9szQzxyUzxqK7cRukQOT0Z/yiOSReOVeXC23JZ2V0u0LU+EzxM/RKZXHaGlmr9xVgv+7HH53hOiG1kNhXfLwv48QQjMmaTs7vlnYWw= 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=hue/LIadWhOIqDtXhSVoccWRnS0SvEk+bsbP4sMVbfIz9/tzzzw7NpUSiBPWlnzVLBJ9ZvcCt0mipIK4CRwMf1LoK8k7iPHMiHZImeaQE1W5CASDBe8WrDJzlI6kKnimb8tNvfu7D5I/BJxbZ7UXEBZMsBPRNgUZbMiPBNAWeL8=; Message-ID: <412578.95001.qm@web81104.mail.mud.yahoo.com> X-YMail-OSG: TsvK9yUVM1l8ZaFrVZwr2G67yceEaGl8YRVrYV9MEm3iH8H XJMkistR0wVIgcMG6tE6OOYSTWoJ.SZcT8YpJ.d6tcUZkoV7tknZpJby2EK5 RI1si9EhgmtQ9NwmpK8yxpVSYU9zImD4dGgmfHwgDIU_Am_sYbMxSL9jPPd5 YM59EsicO6gtHctSv1Q.KHn4UjuK1fHFsxDfP4K2y.XWtLAVL9HLKA4b1KRN ycyavK_.BuxVoVjo6M5Bi6OmbZDD7dzus47VR8Fuq4lcjfllSdhb4DlIYaDO PDIhOgr.aVYpmRiXHES4LxWAUOYbqfYyAOR84jwQLeVk- Received: from [71.139.177.219] by web81104.mail.mud.yahoo.com via HTTP; Thu, 22 Jul 2010 11:54:29 PDT X-Mailer: YahooMailRC/420.4 YahooMailWebService/0.8.104.276605 References: <4c48013d.gPNiF4msgxiXzWRV%mueller6727@bellsouth.net> <9CAC47BC-6209-4B09-9522-85FC11DECDC5@cwis.biz> <881133.14556.qm@web81103.mail.mud.yahoo.com> <4264734A-9755-498C-8619-AD937BEE547A@cwis.biz> Date: Thu, 22 Jul 2010 11:54:29 -0700 (PDT) From: Rich To: Ryan Coleman In-Reply-To: <4264734A-9755-498C-8619-AD937BEE547A@cwis.biz> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: User Questions 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 18:54:30 -0000 Lol, true. ________________________________ From: Ryan Coleman To: Rich Cc: User Questions Sent: Thu, July 22, 2010 11:50:58 AM Subject: Re: system hangs on; "Probing devices, please wait (this can take a while)... " Then you can suffer through "crappy windows" or spend $50 on a hard drive... 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 > 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" > _______________________________________________ > 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"