From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jul 21 11:29:40 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 99EF31065673 for ; Wed, 21 Jul 2010 11:29:40 +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 75C4F8FC26 for ; Wed, 21 Jul 2010 11:29:40 +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 698FA5D42; Wed, 21 Jul 2010 11:29:29 +0000 (UTC) Date: Wed, 21 Jul 2010 12:29:57 +0100 From: Bruce Cran To: "Dave" 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> 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: Wed, 21 Jul 2010 11:29:40 -0000 On Wed, 21 Jul 2010 11:56:50 +0100 "Dave" 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