During install: device Probe freezes after detecting Ethernet address

[Lowell Gilbert]

ideogon <david at ideogon.com> writes:

> I've actually been able to get past this part once.  It continued into the
> installation menu.  I was able to configure the system and then when I set
> it to boot from the CD/DVD, it said that the CD/DVD drive isn't supported.
>
> Did some Googling and apparently that even though the BIOS recognizes my DVD
> (and thus loaded the installation menu from it) doesn't mean that the
> FreeBSD installation recognizes my DVD drive.  According to FreeBSD's site,
> it should recognize any ATAPI CD/DVD drive, which it is according to the
> BIOS.  I went back into the BIOS and realized that the drive was being
> recognized, however, as slave and not master, so I reconnected it as slave
> (confirmed this in the BIOS) and rebooted, speculating that this is the
> underlying issue of FreeBSD not supporting my CD/DVD drive.

You can't have an ATA bus with a slave and not a master.

-- 
Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area
		http://be-well.ilk.org/~lowell/