From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Feb 23 0:57: 1 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mel.alcatel.fr (mel.alcatel.fr [212.208.74.132]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0B6A611391 for ; Tue, 23 Feb 1999 00:56:08 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from Thierry.Herbelot@alcatel.fr) Received: from aifhs2.alcatel.fr (mailhub.alcatel.fr [155.132.180.80]) by mel.alcatel.fr (ALCANET/SMTP) with ESMTP id JAA27936; Tue, 23 Feb 1999 09:55:06 +0100 Received: from lune.telspace.alcatel.fr (lune.telspace.alcatel.fr [155.132.144.65]) by aifhs2.alcatel.fr (ALCANET/SMTP2) with ESMTP id JAA07994; Tue, 23 Feb 1999 09:52:35 +0100 (MET) Received: from telss1.telspace.alcatel.fr (telss1.telspace.alcatel.fr [155.132.51.4]) by lune.telspace.alcatel.fr (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with SMTP id JAA13249; Tue, 23 Feb 1999 09:33:02 +0100 (MET) Received: from telspace.alcatel.fr (nairobi.telspace.alcatel.fr) by telss1.telspace.alcatel.fr (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA22989; Tue, 23 Feb 99 09:42:04 +0100 Message-Id: <36D26B0A.2337FBBE@telspace.alcatel.fr> Date: Tue, 23 Feb 1999 09:47:06 +0100 From: HERBELOT Thierry Organization: Alcatel Telspace X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (X11; I; SunOS 5.5.1 sun4m) 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 Hello, Which version of FreeBSD ? (I had exactly the same problem with 2.2.6-Release, whose Atapi driver IS buggy) If you're on 2.2.6-Release, you will have to install from the DOS partition (after first copying needed files to the HD) TfH "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"???? > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message