From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jul 21 15:45:51 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 5FBEA1065676 for ; Wed, 21 Jul 2010 15:45:51 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rl001@pacbell.net) Received: from web81107.mail.mud.yahoo.com (web81107.mail.mud.yahoo.com [68.142.199.99]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 246A18FC23 for ; Wed, 21 Jul 2010 15:45:50 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 21258 invoked by uid 60001); 21 Jul 2010 15:45:50 -0000 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=pacbell.net; s=s1024; t=1279727150; bh=5R7rVSdQTGKJDSMWAzYpVXDu0R9bLjXsuQ4S3EVjkD0=; h=Message-ID:X-YMail-OSG:Received:X-Mailer:References:Date:From:Subject:To:Cc:In-Reply-To:MIME-Version:Content-Type; b=r16jHFWHQz0H57NSb4ldhdsqtFTXZU0YZnK9e2v82XIJeZLz9pueZoOgZ+0rfrPVANDQQwuaWrSgomvjHtDABbpL99Kyv+NAU58OD4JCD/Vww61+ZuON4jM/nj3w+0MZgGP+Btvjc3W4T0HYmO5OVl33YhUGw4nC2xJ6MC6X7QE= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=pacbell.net; h=Message-ID:X-YMail-OSG:Received:X-Mailer:References:Date:From:Subject:To:Cc:In-Reply-To:MIME-Version:Content-Type; b=3eE13ko7yf1fQRlcVZUrcABFYBDnNvidOE5grG93Q10+ku3Ctvt61jshFUDCowgtgzZ8rVTSSIrYaawixnYpBjZ4zBZ/GQpQvxGiXTX9jbxv5etAeYlRPpXLeuSh9jUZBVcpzdlVsoRxAhO0Yh/LPKWV7kfud6Ll69bDIczz/nw=; Message-ID: <488243.18325.qm@web81107.mail.mud.yahoo.com> X-YMail-OSG: OLpJn9oVM1l2X5xzC8Lmh26aHdkPt55Q0NKCijPM.Xa.lso Mw0UK63Q_grf0JHFeAzvEOM6do93yvKbtVztnSkdFvn.jvUgXrN1OMQfLygz 6LRVDuJUhAMHhLXSDCz09rckbFGwWZ48H5Q4y.ENdPEZ0trM0juoEwyMXLOe aCVvGEaYUNfHVLlDuPmvWzb3YDgwz1p5QNyb7he7g2TbRxJCBfu7Z9D9vvWy oh1IRjVWvu076nnSRVEjrCak3kOYPt4RMOvxHKsUEN8J.tuHdRKhba6WnBCD jl8qLvetqLoH2feXsrf3fVPKDyy9JBVXyhYX9r.lg9Wm4yTeH_gsd0S_L8Kk 8oIEXdePHlw-- Received: from [71.139.189.69] by web81107.mail.mud.yahoo.com via HTTP; Wed, 21 Jul 2010 08:45:50 PDT X-Mailer: YahooMailRC/420.4 YahooMailWebService/0.8.104.276605 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> Date: Wed, 21 Jul 2010 08:45:50 -0700 (PDT) From: Rich To: Dave , Bruce Cran In-Reply-To: <4C46E082.2568.4BA5F993@dave.g8kbv.demon.co.uk> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 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 15:45:51 -0000 ________________________________ From: Dave To: Bruce Cran Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sent: Wed, July 21, 2010 3:56:50 AM Subject: Re: system hangs on; "Probing devices, please wait (this can take a while)... " On 20 Jul 2010 at 23:46, Bruce Cran wrote: > 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. > Maybe because there might be old RAID metadata from being in one of those stupid "fakeraids". I had this problem last year and somehow (can't remember) wiped the drives and got it working. The system worked for about a year then crashed. I thought it a good time to move to 9.0 but now having the same problem again. I didn't put them back in the fakeraid. From what I understand FreeBSD can't be installed on those fakeraids. Maybe it has something to do with that. > -- > Bruce Cran > 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. I know someone mentioned memory tests, but I didn't see what results they came up with, or how much memory you have. I do know however from my own frustrating experience in the past, that often some software will run just fine on bad memory, if the problems don't screw up the code or it's workspace. Where as other software will crash badly, making you think the program is bad. The same is sadly true of hard disk errors too! Did you run a recent memtest86 (self boot CD) and let it do several "Full" passes (can take many many hours per pass if you have lots of ram! And or a not so fast CPU) ? Just idle musings. Dave B. No I didn't run a mem test since every other OS works perfectly fine. There's something in the FreeBSD code that is hanging. When it hangs it says "Probing devices (this may take a while)". What does "a while" mean? A few seconds? few hours? few days? That's a really dumb message IMHO. _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"