From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Apr 8 04:42:29 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id EAA19869 for freebsd-stable-outgoing; Wed, 8 Apr 1998 04:42:29 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mail.ptd.net (srv1.ptd.net [204.186.0.131]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id EAA19864 for ; Wed, 8 Apr 1998 04:42:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nickf@ptd.net) Received: (qmail 10952 invoked from network); 8 Apr 1998 11:42:14 -0000 Received: from cs3-7.pot.ptd.net (HELO ranger.nick.net) (204.186.34.39) by postoffice.ptd.net with SMTP; 8 Apr 1998 11:42:14 -0000 Received: by localhost with Microsoft MAPI; Wed, 8 Apr 1998 07:42:20 -0400 Message-ID: <01BD62C1.DC797740.nickf@ptd.net> From: Nick Folino To: "'Atipa'" Cc: "freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG" Subject: RE: Sysintstall probing hosed on -STABLE? Date: Wed, 8 Apr 1998 07:42:19 -0400 X-Mailer: Microsoft Internet E-mail/MAPI - 8.0.0.4211 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk Did you try disabling all the IDE ports that you're not using in the kernel? It's probably looking for a nonexistant drive. --------------------------------------------------------------- I am the Nickhead nickf@ptd.net --------------------------------------------------------------- -----Original Message----- From: Atipa [SMTP:freebsd@atipa.com] Sent: Tuesday, April 07, 1998 8:16 PM To: Jordan K. Hubbard Cc: Jordan K. Hubbard; freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Sysintstall probing hosed on -STABLE? > 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 or > > whatever. The whole time the hard drives sound like you are doing a > > 'find /usr/ports' :) > > > > Kevin > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message