Date: Fri, 30 Apr 1999 14:38:32 -0500 From: abbott in Northfield <jabbott@abbotts.org> To: Theodore Hope <freebsd@iguana.internexo.co.cr> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: freeze on probing devices Message-ID: <9904301449470J.01771@reaper.northfield.com> References: <199904301911.NAA03747@iguana.internexo.co.cr>
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What I figured out (so far) is FreeBSD does not like the ST32132A hard drive as a master. oops, install just died again, maybe it doesn't like it at all. What I did was dug around the juck pile until I found an old seagate 245 meg drive and installed it as the only hard drive. The device probe worked just fine. Then I installed the ST32132A as a slave and started over. Again the device probe worked ok. Now the trouble is when I get to the part which is the FreeBSD disklabel editor it reports wd1, wd1s1 as 7225281 blocks or 3527Meg. but the drive is only a 2113. Does anyone know if I can fix this by changing the drive geometry somehow? --ja On Fri, 30 Apr 1999, Theodore Hope wrote: > > I have a gateway 2000 G-6 200 (200mhz Pentium Pro). It has in it > > a Seagate ST32132A IDE 2 gig hard drive, 3c509 and ATI video. I > > have had it running BSDi for the past year but want to convert it > > to run FreeBSD 3.1. When I run the install it seems to see > > everything just fine. Everything seems normal but then when I get > > to "probing devices, please wait" it locks up. I can't Alt-F2 and > > I can't Ctrl-Alt-Del. > > I'm having a very similar problem. No frills Packard Bell (Pentium 75), > IDE disk (Seagate 1GB), and a 3com 3c509 ISA. Not even a CD or > special video. Hangs during device probe, both with 2.2.8-stable > and 3.1-release. > > It's been running BSD/OS (BSDI) for almost two years. And I always > thought that BSDI was more finicky than FreeBSD was! > > (If you make progress, pls let us know!) > > -T. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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