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Date:      Wed, 5 Dec 2001 23:17:52 +0000
From:      Josh Paetzel <friar_josh@webwarrior.net>
To:        "David S. Geirsson" <andmann@andmann.eu.org>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: 4.4 installation problem
Message-ID:  <20011205231752.A446@twincat.vladsempire.net>
In-Reply-To: <1007508755.519.0.camel@shinji>; from andmann@andmann.eu.org on Tue, Dec 04, 2001 at 11:32:33PM %2B0000
References:  <1007508755.519.0.camel@shinji>

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On Tue, Dec 04, 2001 at 11:32:33PM +0000, David S. Geirsson wrote:
> I just tried to install FreeBSD 4.4-RELEASE on a machine I have, and
> when booting from the installation bootdisk, the machine seems to just
> stop on "Waiting 15 seconds for SCSI devices to settle". I do have an
> adaptec 2940-controller in the machine, but it's really only connected
> to an internal CD-writer. In any case, this happens even if I remove the
> controller from the machine, so there are no SCSI-controllers in it.
> 
> What could be wrong?
> 
> P.S.: Please reply directly to me, as I'm not subscribed to the list.

Resource conflict most likely.  Make sure plug and play os is set to 
off in your BIOS.  As far as the hang when you remove it, the waiting 
15 seconds thing will only come up if there is a scsi controller in 
the system, so it must hang at a different point...

Josh


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