From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Apr 14 15:34: 9 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from fw.wintelcom.net (ns1.wintelcom.net [209.1.153.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BADAB37B6E2 for ; Fri, 14 Apr 2000 15:34:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bright@fw.wintelcom.net) Received: (from bright@localhost) by fw.wintelcom.net (8.10.0/8.10.0) id e3EN1Mx23612; Fri, 14 Apr 2000 16:01:22 -0700 (PDT) Date: Fri, 14 Apr 2000 16:01:22 -0700 From: Alfred Perlstein To: Simon Coggins Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 4.0-R locks up probing devices on Compaq Amarda M700 Message-ID: <20000414160122.M4381@fw.wintelcom.net> References: <20000415082728.A17087@uow.edu.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: <20000415082728.A17087@uow.edu.au>; from simon@uow.edu.au on Sat, Apr 15, 2000 at 08:27:29AM +1000 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG * Simon Coggins [000414 15:55] wrote: > Hi, > > I havea problem with 4.0 and a Compaq Armada M700. The kernel boots up fine and > finds all of the devices happily. But when sysinstall is loaded and > starts to 'probe' the devices, the HD light comes on and everything locks > up, you have to force a hard reboot. Anyone else having this problem or know > how to fix it? If the machine has a CDrom drive try ejecting the cdrom and putting it back, I've come across something like this before and that's what fixed it for me. -- -Alfred Perlstein - [bright@wintelcom.net|alfred@freebsd.org] "I have the heart of a child; I keep it in a jar on my desk." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message