From owner-freebsd-stable Wed Feb 3 12:28:25 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA16999 for freebsd-stable-outgoing; Wed, 3 Feb 1999 12:28:25 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from main.apex.dp.ua (main.apex.dp.ua [195.24.128.84]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA16962 for ; Wed, 3 Feb 1999 12:28:16 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from golovin@apex.dp.ua) Received: from apex.dp.ua (dialup34.apex.dp.ua [195.24.139.34]) by main.apex.dp.ua (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id WAA24334; Wed, 3 Feb 1999 22:27:44 +0200 (EET) Message-ID: <36B8B04C.9D1E3487@apex.dp.ua> Date: Wed, 03 Feb 1999 22:23:40 +0200 From: Nick Golovin X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.08 [en] (Win95; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Milliken, Scott" CC: "'freebsd-stable@freebsd.org'" Subject: Re: 3.0 sysinstall hangs on Compaq Deskpro 6000 References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=koi8-r Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Milliken, Scott wrote: > detected properly but the system hangs on "Probing for devices" phase of Wonder if this might be of any help: we always got this when installing FreeBSD on a disk where BSDI was installed before. Was cured by booting from DOS diskette and doing "fdisk /mbr" to install standard MBR. It was quite a while ago (about a year), but I've never heard of this to be fixed. Nick Golovin Apex NCC Trifle Co. Ltd. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message