Date: Wed, 21 Jul 2010 12:29:57 +0100 From: Bruce Cran <bruce@cran.org.uk> To: "Dave" <dave@g8kbv.demon.co.uk> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: system hangs on; "Probing devices, please wait (this can take a while)... " Message-ID: <20100721122957.00005011@unknown> In-Reply-To: <4C46E082.2568.4BA5F993@dave.g8kbv.demon.co.uk> References: <4c455351.iveHHylYsmZKh9Xe%mueller6727@bellsouth.net> <117437.98621.qm@web81103.mail.mud.yahoo.com> <20100720234607.00002478@unknown> <4C46E082.2568.4BA5F993@dave.g8kbv.demon.co.uk>
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On Wed, 21 Jul 2010 11:56:50 +0100 "Dave" <dave@g8kbv.demon.co.uk> wrote: > Hi, I'm not a developer (of OS's at least) but from that DEBUG: > list, it almost looks like it thinks it can see just about every > hardware device it knows about, existing or not, and is trying to > use them all. The debug output is saying that it can't open the vast majority of the devices it's trying. The device_names array just contains a list of all devices sysinstall knows about: for USB mass storage devices it tries to open da0-da15. I guess it's not been updated for devfs where it should see which device nodes actually exist - or, better, use geom to enumerate the devices. -- Bruce Cran
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