From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Apr 14 17:24:58 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from isis.its.uow.edu.au (isis.its.uow.edu.au [130.130.68.21]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0131237BE50 for ; Fri, 14 Apr 2000 17:24:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from simon@uow.edu.au) Received: from dustpuppy.its.uow.edu.au (dustpuppy.its.uow.edu.au [130.130.68.11]) by isis.its.uow.edu.au (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id KAA23307; Sat, 15 Apr 2000 10:23:38 +1000 (EST) Received: (from simon@localhost) by dustpuppy.its.uow.edu.au (8.9.3/8.9.3) id KAA07066; Sat, 15 Apr 2000 10:23:38 +1000 (EST) Date: Sat, 15 Apr 2000 10:23:37 +1000 From: Simon Coggins To: Alfred Perlstein Cc: Simon Coggins , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 4.0-R locks up probing devices on Compaq Amarda M700 Message-ID: <20000415102337.B17087@uow.edu.au> References: <20000415082728.A17087@uow.edu.au> <20000414160122.M4381@fw.wintelcom.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: <20000414160122.M4381@fw.wintelcom.net>; from bright@wintelcom.net on Fri, Apr 14, 2000 at 04:01:22PM -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Just tried that. Still no luck. On Fri, Apr 14, 2000 at 04:01:22PM -0700, Alfred Perlstein wrote: > * 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." -- Simon Coggins Network and System Management Officer http://www.uow.edu.au/ Information Technology Systems (ITS) Email: simon@uow.edu.au University of Wollongong Phone: +61-2-4221-3775 Wollongong 2522, Australia Fax: +61-2-4229-1985 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message