From owner-freebsd-newbies Sun Aug 11 10:46: 1 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7967937B400 for ; Sun, 11 Aug 2002 10:45:59 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost.webpath.net (roc-66-66-166-54.rochester.rr.com [66.66.166.54]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9CD5C43E65 for ; Sun, 11 Aug 2002 10:45:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from todd@webpath.net) Received: from localhost.webpath.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by localhost.webpath.net (8.12.5/8.12.5) with ESMTP id g7BHgLat040539; Sun, 11 Aug 2002 13:42:21 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from todd@webpath.net) Received: from localhost (todd@localhost) by localhost.webpath.net (8.12.5/8.12.5/Submit) with ESMTP id g7BHgKFb040536; Sun, 11 Aug 2002 13:42:20 -0400 (EDT) X-Authentication-Warning: localhost.webpath.net: todd owned process doing -bs Date: Sun, 11 Aug 2002 13:42:20 -0400 (EDT) From: Todd Robinson To: Fox Cc: freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD Newbie Help In-Reply-To: <5.0.2.1.0.20020811113016.00a9b7d0@pop-server.austin.rr.com> Message-ID: <20020811133821.J39078-100000@localhost.webpath.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org I have one system (actually two using the same motherboard = Abit BP6) and whenever I run it it hangs there also, but I just press the enter key and it pops into the next screen. The installs go fine and the systems run quite stable. (just incase this may be the problem here) On Sun, 11 Aug 2002, Fox wrote: > At 02:30 AM 8/11/02 -0400, Joshua Lee wrote: > >On Sun, 11 Aug 2002 00:22:25 -0400 > >"Eric B." wrote: > > > > > Probing > > > devices please wait this may take a while. How long is a while? I > > > been waiting for almost 30 mins now. Does that mean something is wrong > > > >Probably so. I had this problem until I disabled a built-in NIC. If that > >doesn't work try disabling or removing other hardware one by one until you > >find out what's confusing the installer. > > I was having similar trouble, and changed my bios. As far as I could tell > FreeBSD does not like the "PnP OS" enabled in the bios. Maybe a more > experienced FreeBSDer could could confirm this. > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message