From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Oct 25 03:21:14 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id DAA00887 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Sun, 25 Oct 1998 03:21:14 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from as5200-01-254.no.neosoft.com (as5200-01-254.no.neosoft.com [206.27.167.254]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id DAA00863 for ; Sun, 25 Oct 1998 03:20:52 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from conrads@as5200-01-254.no.neosoft.com) Received: (from conrads@localhost) by as5200-01-254.no.neosoft.com (8.9.1/8.9.1) id FAA05489; Sun, 25 Oct 1998 05:17:00 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from conrads) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.3 [p0] on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <3632DB28.15E4B194@hotmail.com> Date: Sun, 25 Oct 1998 05:17:00 -0600 (CST) Reply-To: conrads@neosoft.com Organization: NeoSoft, Inc. From: Conrad Sabatier To: Bird Subject: RE: installation problem! Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 25-Oct-98 Bird wrote: > Hi, > > I have a problem during installation. > I am trying to install the FreeBSD version 2.2.6, but I don't know why > it seems stopped & the screen just shows the "probing device, pls > wait...". I have waited half an hr, it is still probing the device ..... > Any suggestion? There should be an indication of what device it's trying to probe when the hang occurs. Reboot and select the option to modify the kernel configuration before continuing. This will place you in the kernel configuration editor. Type "v" to get the visual editor (easier to use), find the device that's causing the hang and disable it. Then continue with the boot process. -- Conrad Sabatier It's a very *____UN*lucky week in which to be took dead. -- Churchy La Femme To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message