Date: Mon, 19 Jul 2010 15:38:20 -0700 (PDT) From: Rich <rl001@pacbell.net> To: Bruce Cran <bruce@cran.org.uk> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: system hangs on; "Probing devices, please wait (this can take a while)... " Message-ID: <285052.53021.qm@web81105.mail.mud.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <20100719230532.00006ace@unknown> References: <680862.29144.qm@web81107.mail.mud.yahoo.com> <20100719230532.00006ace@unknown>
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Ok well at least that's good to know. So I disconnected my hard drives and now it boots up further on the CD only but obviously I can't install it with no hard drives. Why does it hang on my drives and what can I do about it? They are just regular Seagate SATA drives. I have windows 7 installed on the first partition and trying to dual-boot FreeBSD on a second partition (well actually the third since win 7 needs two). AMD Phenom 9500 Quad-Core 2.20 GHz 2G RAM Drives: Seagate ST31000333AS ________________________________ From: Bruce Cran <bruce@cran.org.uk> To: Rich <rl001@pacbell.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sent: Mon, July 19, 2010 3:05:32 PM Subject: Re: system hangs on; "Probing devices, please wait (this can take a while)... " On Mon, 19 Jul 2010 13:16:46 -0700 (PDT) Rich <rl001@pacbell.net> wrote: > "Probing devices, please wait (this can take a while)... " > > I've waited almost an hour. how long is it supposed to take? It would > be nice if there were a status bar or spinning wheel or something to > let you know if it's doing anything or hung. What can I do to get > this to install. It should take less than a second to complete. -- Bruce Cran _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"
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