Date: Wed, 21 Jul 2010 16:28:52 +0100 From: Bruce Cran <bruce@cran.org.uk> To: "Thomas Mueller" <mueller6727@bellsouth.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: system hangs on; "Probing devices, please wait (this can take a while)... " Message-ID: <20100721162852.00007894@unknown> In-Reply-To: <4c46b835.qHM%2BB55tzs4Jv8Wu%mueller6727@bellsouth.net> References: <4c46b835.qHM%2BB55tzs4Jv8Wu%mueller6727@bellsouth.net>
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On Wed, 21 Jul 2010 09:04:53 +0000 "Thomas Mueller" <mueller6727@bellsouth.net> wrote: > I wonder if FreeBSD is the only OS with > "Probing devices, please wait (this can take a while)... " > > Nothing like this occurs in NetBSD or Linux; I've also installed > various DOSes (MS-DOS 4.01 and upgrade to 5; DR-DOS 7.03 and FreeDOS; > OS/2 1.3 through (Warp) 4) although MS-DOS 4.01 (back in 1990) and > OS/2 had their own problems. Only FreeBSD has sysinstall - that message gets displayed when sysinstall starts as it checks what devices are available for it to register internally. It's a message from userspace, not the kernel. -- Bruce Cran
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