system hangs on; "Probing devices, please wait (this can take a while)... "

[Rich]

Ok well at least that's good to know. So I disconnected my hard drives and now 
it boots up further on the CD only but obviously I can't install it with no hard 
drives. Why does it hang on my drives and what can I do about it? They are just 
regular Seagate SATA drives. I have windows 7 installed on the first partition 
and trying to dual-boot FreeBSD on a second partition (well actually the third 
since win 7 needs two).



AMD Phenom 9500  Quad-Core 2.20 GHz
2G RAM

Drives:
Seagate ST31000333AS




________________________________
From: Bruce Cran <bruce at cran.org.uk>
To: Rich <rl001 at pacbell.net>
Cc: freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
Sent: Mon, July 19, 2010 3:05:32 PM
Subject: Re: system hangs on; "Probing devices, please wait (this can take a 
while)... "

On Mon, 19 Jul 2010 13:16:46 -0700 (PDT)
Rich <rl001 at pacbell.net> wrote:

> "Probing devices,  please wait (this can take a while)... "
> 
> I've waited almost an hour. how long is it supposed to take? It would
> be nice if there were a status bar or spinning wheel or something to
> let you know if it's doing anything or hung. What can I do to get
> this to install.

It should take less than a second to complete.

-- 
Bruce Cran
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