sysinstall Hangs When Probing Devices on 5.4
Garrett Cooper
youshi10 at u.washington.edu
Mon Sep 19 12:19:29 PDT 2005
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
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