Date: Thu, 6 May 1999 08:25:51 -0600 (CST) From: Theodore Hope <freebsd@iguana.internexo.co.cr> To: deaven@execpc.com (David Deaven) Cc: mnewell@newell.arlington.va.us, dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 3.1 install hangs during probe Message-ID: <199905061425.IAA13892@iguana.internexo.co.cr> In-Reply-To: <199905060324.WAA19107@pop01.execpc.com> from "David Deaven" at May 5, 99 10:31:29 pm
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>I recently had a 3.1 install hang during the "probing devices" screen. >Switching virtual consoles (use alt-F1 and alt-F2) allowed me to see the error >messages which identified the problem. I had a very old seagate IDE drive on >my secondary controller which was causing the problem. This drive works fine >after FreeBSD is installed (the machine used to run 2.2.6, 2.2.8, and now runs >3.1) but does not tolerate the probing done during install. If you have an >ancient (>4yr) IDE drive in there you might try removing it. I was able to >simply remove the secondary controller from the visual boot config, and that >did the trick to get past the install probe. This particular box is not ancient (it's less than 2 years old), and I'm not able to alt-F1 or alt-F2 after I get to the blue "probing devices" screen. If I try to alt-F3 the beep goes on and stays on ;-? Thanks anyway, -Ted. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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