From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jun 2 15:39:26 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0CBBE37B401 for ; Mon, 2 Jun 2003 15:39:26 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ns1.webwarrior.net (overlord-host99.dsl.visi.com [209.98.86.99]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7824043F75 for ; Mon, 2 Jun 2003 15:39:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from friar_josh@webwarrior.net) Received: by ns1.webwarrior.net (Postfix, from userid 1003) id 5F769253DB; Mon, 2 Jun 2003 17:39:22 -0500 (CDT) Date: Mon, 2 Jun 2003 17:39:22 -0500 From: Josh Paetzel To: "E. Clay Price" Message-ID: <20030602223922.GB65653@ns1.webwarrior.net> References: <1054592250.3544.3.camel@reddog2.earthlink.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1054592250.3544.3.camel@reddog2.earthlink.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: probing devices X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 02 Jun 2003 22:39:26 -0000 On Mon, Jun 02, 2003 at 06:17:31PM -0400, E. Clay Price wrote: > I am trying to install BSD 5 on a Intel P3-450 machine. After booting > from cd, there is a screen that says "Probing devices, please wait (this > can take a while). How long is "a while"??? It has been probing for > about 4 hours. Any suggestions? > You hvae a hung machine there, that probe should take a minute or two there. I can't remember if you can press ALT-F2 at this point in the install to see the debug console, but if you can that might give you some indication of what the problem is. Hope this helps some. Josh