From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jan 4 06:29:47 2004 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 6089D16A4CE for ; Sun, 4 Jan 2004 06:29:47 -0800 (PST) Received: from rwcrmhc13.comcast.net (rwcrmhc13.comcast.net [204.127.198.39]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6431F43D1D for ; Sun, 4 Jan 2004 06:29:46 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org) Received: from be-well.no-ip.com ([66.30.200.37]) by comcast.net (rwcrmhc13) with ESMTP id <2004010414294601500pep7ae>; Sun, 4 Jan 2004 14:29:46 +0000 Received: by be-well.no-ip.com (Postfix, from userid 1147) id 9B992F; Sun, 4 Jan 2004 09:29:45 -0500 (EST) Sender: lowell@be-well.ilk.org To: Mike Jeays References: <3FF6E6AB.5000504@rogers.com> <44k748j48o.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> <3FF78EC7.2070007@rogers.com> From: Lowell Gilbert Date: 04 Jan 2004 09:29:45 -0500 In-Reply-To: <3FF78EC7.2070007@rogers.com> Message-ID: <44smivyeg6.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> Lines: 10 User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii cc: freebsd-questions Subject: Re: Failure to probe devices X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: freebsd-questions List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 04 Jan 2004 14:29:47 -0000 Mike Jeays writes: > I am not sure what else there is to post. The machine gets to the > point where > it says something like "Probing devices - this may take a while", and then > nothing else happens. I read the 5.1 errata, and tried switching from APIC > to PIC, and disabling the on-board sound card, but this made no difference. How about disabling the ACPI support (also described in the errata)? How about trying 5.2? [or 4.9 if you'd prefer it "just work"]