From owner-freebsd-current Fri Oct 16 04:24:07 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id EAA15651 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Fri, 16 Oct 1998 04:24:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from time.cdrom.com (time.cdrom.com [204.216.27.226]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id EAA15646 for ; Fri, 16 Oct 1998 04:24:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jkh@time.cdrom.com) Received: from time.cdrom.com (jkh@localhost.cdrom.com [127.0.0.1]) by time.cdrom.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id EAA13178; Fri, 16 Oct 1998 04:24:04 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jkh@time.cdrom.com) To: Matt Behrens cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: sysinstall "probing devices" hangs only on 3.0-199810??-BETA, not on 2.2.7-RELEASE boot disk In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 16 Oct 1998 07:20:07 EDT." Date: Fri, 16 Oct 1998 04:24:04 -0700 Message-ID: <13174.908537044@time.cdrom.com> From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > I can't start the 3.0-19981009-BETA or 3.0-19981015-BETA install > process because sysinstall is hanging at the "probing devices, this > may take a while" screen. Upon switching to the second VT, the > final DEBUG message is either (forgive my paraphrasing please) I saw that once myself, but only when I went and trimmed out everything and its brother with the visual userconfig. When I just whacked return the next time through, editing nothing in the kernel configuration, it went fine. Could you perhaps try this so we could narrow things down a bit? - Jordan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message