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Subject: Re: Sysintstall probing hosed on -STABLE? 
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All I had enabled were Floppy controller, 1 or both IDE controllers, lpt0,
sio1, syscons, etc., and the PCI. No ISA drivers (except FD and I/O).

Was doing reinstall of FreeBSD; these machine both had FreeBSD on them
already, and I had no problems then.

Kevin


On Tue, 7 Apr 1998, Dexnation Holodream wrote:

> I've seen similar things...try configuring your kernel only for present
> controllers and drives.
> 
> -Jon
> 
> On Tue, 7 Apr 1998, Jordan K. Hubbard wrote:
> 
> > Hmmmm.  This is very odd - I can't think of any reason why it would
> > wait, nor does it wait anywhere near that long on my 2 IDE/1 SCSI
> > drive spambox.
> > 
> > Hmmmmm.  *shug*? :-)
> > 
> > 					Jordan
> > > 
> > > 
> > > > Hmmm.  How are these IDE drives connected?
> > > 
> > > In any order. I thought I had bad disks (or non-cooperating), so I tried
> > > every combination possible. I wasted lots o' time :(...
> > > 
> > > I finally waited the 3 minutes to get an error message, but none came; it
> > > was fine!  If I had been patient the first time, I am sure it would have
> > > worked too.
> > > 
> > > Tried w/ 1 drive, 2 drives (MASTER/SLAVE and also 1MASTER/2MASTER).
> > > 
> > > Kevin
> > >  
> > > > > I am installing STABLE (SNAP 0404), and everytime sysinstall starts up on
> > > > > boot, it takes over 3 minutes to get through the 'Probing devices, please
> > > > > wait...' screen. 
> > > > > 
> > > > > This as been on 2 totally different machines. What the do have in common:
> > > > > Fujitsu IDE hard drives, Adaptec SCSI cards (removing does not change
> > > > > anything), and Award BIOS for PPro. Different mobos (one AT, other ATX;
> > > > > one Gigabyte, one ASUS).
> > > > > 
> > > > > Anyone else find this behavior? Everything runs fine after it times out o
> > r
> > > > > whatever. The whole time the hard drives sound like you are doing a 
> > > > > 'find /usr/ports' :)
> > > > > 
> > > > > Kevin
> > > > > 
> > > > 
> > > > 
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