From owner-freebsd-questions Thu May 6 7:27:26 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from iguana.internexo.co.cr (iguana.internexo.co.cr [196.40.17.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B02E514FBE for ; Thu, 6 May 1999 07:27:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from freebsd@iguana.internexo.co.cr) Received: (from freebsd@localhost) by iguana.internexo.co.cr (8.8.5/8.8.5) id IAA13892; Thu, 6 May 1999 08:25:51 -0600 (CST) From: Theodore Hope Message-Id: <199905061425.IAA13892@iguana.internexo.co.cr> Subject: Re: 3.1 install hangs during probe To: deaven@execpc.com (David Deaven) Date: Thu, 6 May 1999 08:25:51 -0600 (CST) Cc: mnewell@newell.arlington.va.us, dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <199905060324.WAA19107@pop01.execpc.com> from "David Deaven" at May 5, 99 10:31:29 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >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