From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Dec 7 14:45:52 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from tharmas.rintrah.org (dhcp065-024-235-184.insight.rr.com [65.24.235.184]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id C6AB237B416 for ; Fri, 7 Dec 2001 14:45:46 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 70042 invoked by uid 1000); 7 Dec 2001 22:46:04 -0000 Date: Fri, 7 Dec 2001 17:46:04 -0500 From: devin-freebsdquestions@rintrah.org To: Dan Kociela Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: System hang during device probe Message-ID: <20011207174604.A69120@tharmas.rintrah.org> Mail-Followup-To: Dan Kociela , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <000201c17f4a$01269de0$4d42913f@dansdesktop> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <000201c17f4a$01269de0$4d42913f@dansdesktop>; from kociela@rof.net on Fri, Dec 07, 2001 at 11:06:40AM -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, Dec 07, 2001 at 11:06:40AM -0700, Dan Kociela wrote: > I've read all the documentation, and corrected all the device conflicts, nevertheless my system still hangs at the "probing for devices" screen. What else can I try? > Dan I used to have this problem on a Cyrix mediagx board. I'm assuming you're talking about probing for devices during the sysinstall process. Sometimes hitting return or some such would fix this for me. Sometimes hitting the eject buttong on the CDROM drive fixed it. --devin To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message