From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jul 20 00:57:17 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 F01881065670 for ; Tue, 20 Jul 2010 00:57:17 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rl001@pacbell.net) Received: from web81102.mail.mud.yahoo.com (web81102.mail.mud.yahoo.com [68.142.199.94]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id B871F8FC29 for ; Tue, 20 Jul 2010 00:57:17 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 1510 invoked by uid 60001); 20 Jul 2010 00:57:17 -0000 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=pacbell.net; s=s1024; t=1279587437; bh=Rk2kzO8Z655rOPRUBWBoL7qL2z3a/MRAEMnAoy/Vz0k=; h=Message-ID:X-YMail-OSG:Received:X-Mailer:References:Date:From:Subject:To:Cc:In-Reply-To:MIME-Version:Content-Type; b=5nUtUkefU5VcKMqm0XHMnCBCjgJHzc8rHX2c1nTQlL7u8QP0SH4xx74c/7d3fkA9o4gj3oW37iOL14JaTL9PuTXCEapx4/JvdqgQLylh1sFLV2Q+HY3EA0Yuc7eVsbMCnfgYMMBsiVOrLCMqvnzf0ZB2/eN3vqJDseRHU9RnwEw= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=pacbell.net; h=Message-ID:X-YMail-OSG:Received:X-Mailer:References:Date:From:Subject:To:Cc:In-Reply-To:MIME-Version:Content-Type; b=TinqVcsmeUWUS7QlePgrTEKpF1Dunnb6bcqSUo3vGIlSS9AeFXMxDPPTEZ92pxq3wPvdtYz7A1C6DZ31WaoAkQRtqIL6Kd9XZRl7/NDO3EUXJmGqeKBzsU6XYkKwsfTIwWjLpsY9Lt3dFCFTNiq9UNoYlpOjZaCdntAy1pdlodg=; Message-ID: <304914.94992.qm@web81102.mail.mud.yahoo.com> X-YMail-OSG: u2zV584VM1n6Fw2_ChVXdYvEZPNhN5DobxETgGCydlorflz LMmnWLsny1P3GnSKHqXX9.6lqLLEESYfB5Oh2d8qV5Simhwhm2cLJnjFrriO L_wQE0V87J6z5ASDnuGdq5xuqCNmhe5HA2GI_yVZpTnfYNcXVaMK4zN1OMOa 9YBUL4wiMOy2E8aLENewdH.zm0HS2Z3Ut8XdRv5PIcpSBeDrV5ExqiTi_Gd7 mYKt6L9S.bc84EA0p_Qg.z0UvBQY5vWztVuIUmz4jCmIqNpP2Z9QtF0sfPQw SMKB93u9OtIuDjOiUNMSwycafo_g3P57SixJp10.2VkY- Received: from [71.139.193.145] by web81102.mail.mud.yahoo.com via HTTP; Mon, 19 Jul 2010 17:57:17 PDT X-Mailer: YahooMailRC/420.4 YahooMailWebService/0.8.104.276605 References: <680862.29144.qm@web81107.mail.mud.yahoo.com> <20100719230532.00006ace@unknown> <285052.53021.qm@web81105.mail.mud.yahoo.com> <76C2A9EE-BB8A-4D04-B10F-0B9B5F6AA1F3@mac.com> Date: Mon, 19 Jul 2010 17:57:17 -0700 (PDT) From: Rich To: Chuck Swiger In-Reply-To: <76C2A9EE-BB8A-4D04-B10F-0B9B5F6AA1F3@mac.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 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: Tue, 20 Jul 2010 00:57:18 -0000 Motherbd is Foxconn Digitalife A79A-S. BIOS settings don't make any difference. ________________________________ From: Chuck Swiger To: Rich Cc: FreeBSD - Sent: Mon, July 19, 2010 4:17:06 PM Subject: Re: system hangs on; "Probing devices, please wait (this can take a while)... " 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 _______________________________________________ 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"