From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jul 19 23:17:10 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 666E61065675 for ; Mon, 19 Jul 2010 23:17:10 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from asmtpout027.mac.com (asmtpout027.mac.com [17.148.16.102]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4FF6B8FC1B for ; Mon, 19 Jul 2010 23:17:10 +0000 (UTC) MIME-version: 1.0 Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Received: from cswiger1.apple.com ([17.209.4.71]) by asmtp027.mac.com (Sun Java(tm) System Messaging Server 6.3-8.01 (built Dec 16 2008; 32bit)) with ESMTPSA id <0L5T00LRGVCI6E70@asmtp027.mac.com> for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Mon, 19 Jul 2010 16:17:07 -0700 (PDT) X-Proofpoint-Spam-Details: rule=notspam policy=default score=0 spamscore=0 ipscore=0 phishscore=0 bulkscore=0 adultscore=0 classifier=spam adjust=0 reason=mlx engine=6.0.2-1004200000 definitions=main-1007190130 X-Proofpoint-Virus-Version: vendor=fsecure engine=2.50.10432:5.0.10011,1.0.148,0.0.0000 definitions=2010-07-19_07:2010-07-19, 2010-07-19, 1970-01-01 signatures=0 From: Chuck Swiger In-reply-to: <285052.53021.qm@web81105.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Date: Mon, 19 Jul 2010 16:17:06 -0700 Message-id: <76C2A9EE-BB8A-4D04-B10F-0B9B5F6AA1F3@mac.com> References: <680862.29144.qm@web81107.mail.mud.yahoo.com> <20100719230532.00006ace@unknown> <285052.53021.qm@web81105.mail.mud.yahoo.com> To: Rich X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1081) Cc: FreeBSD - 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 23:17:10 -0000 Hi-- On Jul 19, 2010, at 3:38 PM, Rich wrote: > 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 There's not quite enough information here to identify your motherboard, but you should make sure there aren't any BIOS upgrades available for it, as those might help resolve this level of issue. Check your BIOS config for the disks carefully, and try adjusting the options you have. In particular, try choosing LBA mode rather than auto or CHS, and try to toggle through "ACPI (or SATA mode)" vs. "IDE (or PATA compatibility)" vs. "enhanced (often meaning some form of BIOS RAID is enabled)" and see whether any of them work. If that doesn't do the trick, you could wander through your BIOS menus, and disable all of the non-essential stuff like parallel & serial ports, second NIC, or anything else which is not needed, and see whether that does any good...but that's getting into stuff which is less likely to make a difference. Regards, -- -Chuck