sysinstall Hangs When Probing Devices on 5.4

[Garrett Cooper]

Drew Tomlinson wrote:

> I have run the 4.x versions on this exact same hardware with no 
> sysinstall issues.  I upgraded to 5.4 using the installation CD and 
> sysinstall ran fine during the install.  However after installing my 
> system and doing a full boot, sysinstall just "hangs" at probing on 
> any attempt to run from the command line as any user including root.  
> It does not respond to either 'kill' or 'kill -9'.  The only way to 
> get rid of the process is a reboot.  Any ideas on why I'm seeing this 
> behavior?  How can I go about troubleshooting?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Drew

    How long do you let it sit? Sometimes it appears as if probing 
devices takes approximately 4-6 minutes on my P4, so if you have slower 
hardware it may take longer.
-Garrett