From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Apr 20 06:41:24 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id GAA21077 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 20 Apr 1998 06:41:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from omega.noc.easynet.net (omega.noc.easynet.net [195.40.1.227]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id NAA20971 for ; Mon, 20 Apr 1998 13:40:36 GMT (envelope-from matts@omega.noc.easynet.net) Received: (qmail 21893 invoked by uid 1975); 20 Apr 1998 13:40:31 -0000 Message-ID: <19980420134031.21892.qmail@omega.noc.easynet.net> Date: Mon, 20 Apr 1998 14:40:31 +0100 From: Matt Saunders To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Problems overwriting old BSDI disks? Mail-Followup-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.91.1i (FreeBSD 2.2.6-STABLE i386) Organization: Easynet Group plc Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Hi, We've upgraded a number of our machines to FreeBSD 2.2.(5|6) from BSDI BSD/OS 3.1. Each and every time we do this (reusing the old BSDI hard disk) sysinstall hangs shortly after it runs, at the "probing devices" screen. This is on pretty standard IDE-only hardware. The only solution seems to be to completely wipe out the old system with something like DOS fdisk which works, but is a pain. Has anyone else seen this or is it just us? Anyone know if there's a way to fix it? Cheers, Matt. -- M a t t S a u n d e r s Systems Engineer Easynet Group plc http://www.easynet.net/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message