From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Feb 22 19: 3:54 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from WEBBSD1.turnaround.com.au (webbsd1.turnaround.com.au [203.39.138.49]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B22AB10F49 for ; Mon, 22 Feb 1999 19:03:51 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from A_Johns@TurnAround.com.au) Received: from TurnAround.com.au (dhcp64.turnaround.com.au [192.168.1.64]) by WEBBSD1.turnaround.com.au (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id OAA09838; Tue, 23 Feb 1999 14:05:41 +1100 (EST) (envelope-from A_Johns@TurnAround.com.au) Message-ID: <36D21A3B.CAFE9DB9@TurnAround.com.au> Date: Tue, 23 Feb 1999 14:02:19 +1100 From: Andrew Johns Organization: TurnAround Solutions P/L X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (WinNT; I) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "A.K" Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Why does it hang? References: <36D210EC.5E5510EC@biosys.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG "A.K" wrote: > Hello! > > Here's my system config: > > PII 266 > 64 MB RAM > IBM DHEA 6.4 Gig drive (IDE) > Genius 2500 III Lan card (NE2000 compatible) > SiS 3D AGO PRO video card > Gigabyte 440 LX motherboard. > LiteON 40 X Cd ROm > > This is nothing exotic so why does it hang at "Probing devices"???? What (if anything) is displayed on the screen at this time? ie: Could you please include the boot messages (starting after the boot prompt) and if you do, could you use the -cv option at the boot prompt as it will (hopefully) shed some more light on what the kernel thinks is in your system (as well as anything that it thinks is not in your system). eg: boot info.....blah blah blah boot: -cv <---- you enter this, be quick though! detection of hardware, etc. starts here blah blah and bombs out down here somewhere (is this correct? If so pls include everything from the boot: to here in your reply). -- Regards | _/\_/\ Andrew Johns BSc (Comp Sci) | / \ TurnAround Solutions Pty Ltd | \_...__/ http://www.turnaround.com.au/ | \/ "The box said 'Requires Windows 95, NT, or better,' so I installed FreeBSD." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message