From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jul 20 06:19:07 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 D324F1065673 for ; Tue, 20 Jul 2010 06:19:07 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from sektie@gmail.com) Received: from mail-vw0-f54.google.com (mail-vw0-f54.google.com [209.85.212.54]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 826158FC16 for ; Tue, 20 Jul 2010 06:19:07 +0000 (UTC) Received: by vws19 with SMTP id 19so7031715vws.13 for ; Mon, 19 Jul 2010 23:19:06 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:sender:received :in-reply-to:references:date:x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject :from:to:cc:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=0WRu5BG5EilipKEAmdANZ9xhM3BE5wpWaPqYgrpYugs=; b=ntyDaK1il8bmV8PglrCraLd6IeFeUr18Q4cSOILcDnHBbok/uR9w6DqoDA9Nbm4YEL z/TJwIDmjaOyzQQXgmYIRVp9Y449dGcoTLP2/6C64v9HJ7K/IjMQe2uwHmocZyWrWsCx J41G6OmyX5OVpK8hHmeBnLJGweDT8O/5Y6Oio= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:sender:in-reply-to:references:date :x-google-sender-auth:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; b=SgFuf6L2BiaGNKUqqVVHNtN2aA52qoclEcCuJOx6Itw7TOPYwmzbwAZOJTBX6Ihi7u xOVwq4xLUO0td4mS1BTm3UPls8zeGCRKsLlu2apNV6IYLiOcJYDPgRLR17Jn5a1qGmXd 6tx5vi2jIKkytuv+tqR5FEpwHz0TXYUMESrbE= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.220.125.16 with SMTP id w16mr3160869vcr.84.1279606746435; Mon, 19 Jul 2010 23:19:06 -0700 (PDT) Sender: sektie@gmail.com Received: by 10.220.202.131 with HTTP; Mon, 19 Jul 2010 23:19:06 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <20100720070948.00001fc6@unknown> 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> <20100720070948.00001fc6@unknown> Date: Mon, 19 Jul 2010 23:19:06 -0700 X-Google-Sender-Auth: mypHFslLzmbtGRuaDlOHh07_rKE Message-ID: From: Randi Harper To: Bruce Cran Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Cc: FreeBSD - , 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: Tue, 20 Jul 2010 06:19:08 -0000 On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 11:09 PM, Bruce Cran wrote: > On Mon, 19 Jul 2010 16:17:06 -0700 > Chuck Swiger wrote: > >> 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. =A0In 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. > > > The code that's being run does the following: > > 1. Finds all network interfaces. > 2. Finds all CDROM, floppy, disk and network devices that might be > needed for installation. > 3. Finds all partitions on the disks to register. > > I'd guess it's hanging on a syscall somewhere, but there really isn't > much debugging output in usr.sbin/sysinstall/devices.c to know where, > unless the kernel has printed some errors to the debug console. > > -- > 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.o= rg" > This is why I suspected #3 - maybe querying the disk and hanging because of bad disk? Hard to say without debug logs. -- randi