From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jul 20 22:45:55 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 17830106566B for ; Tue, 20 Jul 2010 22:45:55 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from bruce@cran.org.uk) Received: from muon.cran.org.uk (muon.cran.org.uk [204.109.60.94]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E906F8FC0A for ; Tue, 20 Jul 2010 22:45:54 +0000 (UTC) Received: from unknown (client-86-31-3-93.midd.adsl.virginmedia.com [86.31.3.93]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by muon.cran.org.uk (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 458F75D42; Tue, 20 Jul 2010 22:45:44 +0000 (UTC) Date: Tue, 20 Jul 2010 23:46:07 +0100 From: Bruce Cran To: Rich Message-ID: <20100720234607.00002478@unknown> In-Reply-To: <117437.98621.qm@web81103.mail.mud.yahoo.com> References: <4c455351.iveHHylYsmZKh9Xe%mueller6727@bellsouth.net> <117437.98621.qm@web81103.mail.mud.yahoo.com> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.7.4cvs1 (GTK+ 2.16.0; i586-pc-mingw32msvc) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org 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 22:45:55 -0000 On Tue, 20 Jul 2010 14:59:04 -0700 (PDT) Rich wrote: > Any ideas anyone ? I'm stuck. Cannot install FreeBSD on my computer. > Every other OS besides FreeBSD boots up and installs. What else can I > check? It looks like it's stopping/spinning at the section where it parses the slices/partitions. I don't know why it would be getting stuck there, though. -- Bruce Cran