From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jul 19 23:16:17 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2A20D1065673 for ; Mon, 19 Jul 2010 23:16:17 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bruce@cran.org.uk) Received: from muon.cran.org.uk (muon.cran.org.uk [204.109.60.94]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0A39B8FC22 for ; Mon, 19 Jul 2010 23:16:16 +0000 (UTC) Received: from unknown (client-86-31-3-93.midd.adsl.virginmedia.com [86.31.3.93]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by muon.cran.org.uk (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id AA3735D42; Mon, 19 Jul 2010 23:16:06 +0000 (UTC) Date: Tue, 20 Jul 2010 00:16:27 +0100 From: Bruce Cran To: Polytropon Message-ID: <20100720001627.00005ebe@unknown> In-Reply-To: <20100720005958.d82c5a97.freebsd@edvax.de> References: <680862.29144.qm@web81107.mail.mud.yahoo.com> <20100719230532.00006ace@unknown> <285052.53021.qm@web81105.mail.mud.yahoo.com> <20100720005958.d82c5a97.freebsd@edvax.de> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.7.4cvs1 (GTK+ 2.16.0; i586-pc-mingw32msvc) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, Rich Subject: Re: system hangs on; "Probing devices, please wait (this can take a while)... " X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 19 Jul 2010 23:16:17 -0000 On Tue, 20 Jul 2010 00:59:58 +0200 Polytropon wrote: > I would suggest to boot with the live system CD, e. g. of 8.0-RELEASE. > It should not launch sysinstall automatically (you can even boot the > CD into SUM), so you end up with a regular shell. First, check all > the kernel's output for things that look... strange... and maybe you > even decide to install the system without sysinstall (if THAT is > what's causing all the trouble). Unfortunately the LiveFS CD does run sysinstall by default - you need to go to the Fixit menu to get the shell. I'd suggest trying to boot with debug output enabled and seeing if that produces any clues - I suspect not, but it's worth a go. To do that, press 6 when you see the boot menu to get command prompt and enter "boot -v". You should see any debug output on the 2nd console (press F2 when sysinstall hangs). -- Bruce Cran