From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Aug 28 11:35:22 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA28353 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Fri, 28 Aug 1998 11:35:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mx2.zenith.com (mx2.zenith.com [207.94.25.243]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA28343 for ; Fri, 28 Aug 1998 11:35:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from limr@ns1.dmg.zenith.com) Received: from mx1.zenith.com (unverified [136.166.62.14]) by mx2.zenith.com (Integralis SMTPRS 2.04) with ESMTP id ; Fri, 28 Aug 1998 13:35:17 -0500 Received: from ns1.dmg.zenith.com (ns1.dmg.zenith.com [136.166.70.1]) by mx1.zenith.com (8.8.8+Sun/8.8.8) with ESMTP id NAA15056; Fri, 28 Aug 1998 13:30:17 -0500 (CDT) Received: from cbl5 (cbl5 [136.166.70.5]) by ns1.dmg.zenith.com (8.8.7/8.8.7) with SMTP id NAA00312; Fri, 28 Aug 1998 13:33:57 -0500 Message-Id: <199808281833.NAA00312@ns1.dmg.zenith.com> Date: Fri, 28 Aug 1998 13:34:02 -0500 (CDT) From: Robert Lim Reply-To: Robert Lim Subject: FreeBSD 2.2.7 Installation To: support@cdrom.com, questions@FreeBSD.ORG MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-MD5: DxyFtWz7kxPfjPdRNsBF2w== X-Mailer: dtmail 1.2.0 CDE Version 1.2 SunOS 5.6 sun4m sparc Content-Type: TEXT/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hello, I'm trying to install FreeBSD 2.2.7 and when it starts probing the devices, it hangs up and switching to VT2, it dies at wd3 complaining about wdcontrol recal failed reading. The machine is a gateway p5-166 with a 2G IDE hard disk and a toshiba IDE cdrom. How do I disable the probe so installation won't die when it probes the IDE CDROM? Thanks in advance, Robert +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | Robert C. Lim Room #258 | | Digital Cable Systems | | EMail:limr@dmg.zenith.com Zenith Electronics | | Phone:847-391-7038 1000 Milwaukee Avenue | | Fax :847-391-8084 Glenview, IL 60025 | | http ://www.zenith.com | | | | "Truth longs to be seen by eyes unclouded with desire." | +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message