From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Aug 11 9:35:30 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from revolution.3-cities.com (revolution.3-cities.com [204.203.224.155]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 41C6F14C59 for ; Wed, 11 Aug 1999 09:35:25 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kstewart@3-cities.com) Received: from 3-cities.com (kenn1135.bossig.com [208.26.241.135]) by revolution.3-cities.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id JAA26413; Wed, 11 Aug 1999 09:34:53 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <37B1A623.79DE3B1D@3-cities.com> Date: Wed, 11 Aug 1999 09:34:43 -0700 From: Kent Stewart Organization: Columbia Basin Virtual Community Project X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.61 [en] (WinNT; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Robert Watson Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Hang during install (probing devices) Dell Dimension XPS P90 (pentium), Western Digital Caviar 21000 References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Robert Watson wrote: > > We were recently trying to install FreeBSD onto one of our test servers, a > Dell Pentium 90 (Dimension XPS P90), and had repeated problems with > sysinstall/kernel hangs when "Probing for devices". It would appear to > boot the kernel fine and correctly discover hardware, but when sysinstall > popped up its dialog about probing devices, most system functions would > hang. The num lock key still changed the keyboard light, but no scroll > back occured with scroll lock, or changing of vt's. This was with both > FreeBSD 3.1 and 3.2 release versions. We recently tracked it down to > being a problem with the Western Digital Caviar 21000 drive in the > machine, as we moved the drive to another machine, and it also hung on > that machine where it had not previously. Did you change the MBR because that seems to be a problem with the Caviar's. I had to leave a DOS MBR on the drive in order for it to make it passed the memory count and drive interregation. Kent > > I was wondering if anyone had any experience with this problem--we can use > the Dell fine now (well, sans CDROM drive because FreeBSD seems not to > like the IDE ATAPI drive) with a new hard disk, but the old hard disk > hangs the install on all the machines we've tried. Any thoughts on why a > particular hard disk would hang FreeBSD's probe? BSD/OS 3.x installs and > boots in the machine fine. > > Robert N M Watson > > robert@fledge.watson.org http://www.watson.org/~robert/ > PGP key fingerprint: AF B5 5F FF A6 4A 79 37 ED 5F 55 E9 58 04 6A B1 > TIS Labs at Network Associates, Computing Laboratory at Cambridge University > Safeport Network Services > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA mailto:kstewart@3-cities.com http://www.3-cities.com/~kstewart/index.html SETI(Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) @ HOME http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/ Hunting Archibald Stewart, b 1802 in Ballymena, Antrim Co., NIR http://www.3-cities.com/~kstewart/genealogy/archibald_stewart.html To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message