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

[Rich]

Ok I booted on that disc and it hangs at the same place. not sure what to do 
next.

What is the "fixit" menu?




________________________________
From: Ryan Coleman <ryan.coleman at cwis.biz>
To: Rich <rl001 at pacbell.net>
Sent: Mon, July 19, 2010 6:23:45 PM
Subject: Re: system hangs on; "Probing devices, please wait (this can take a 
while)... "

Rich,


Here they are:
8.0 i386:            
ftp://ftp11.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ISO-IMAGES-i386/8.0/8.0-RELEASE-i386-livefs.iso

8.0 AMD64:         
ftp://ftp11.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ISO-IMAGES-amd64/8.0/8.0-RELEASE-amd64-livefs.iso


Each is < 640MB

On Jul 19, 2010, at 8:11 PM, Rich wrote:

> I couldn't find a live CD fro 8.0 Release. All I could find was at this site;
> 
> http://livecd.sourceforge.net/download.php
> 
> It's 4.6, is that useful? Anyway, it booted up to the login prompt without 
> hanging. What does that tell us? Is there anything I can check with this disk 
>or 
>
> is there somewhere I can get the 8.0 live CD?
> 
> 
> 
> ________________________________
> From: Polytropon <freebsd at edvax.de>
> To: Bruce Cran <bruce at cran.org.uk>
> Cc: freebsd-questions at freebsd.org; Rich <rl001 at pacbell.net>
> Sent: Mon, July 19, 2010 4:34:18 PM
> Subject: Re: system hangs on; "Probing devices, please wait (this can take a 
> while)... "
> 
> On Tue, 20 Jul 2010 00:16:27 +0100, Bruce Cran <bruce at cran.org.uk> wrote:
>> On Tue, 20 Jul 2010 00:59:58 +0200
>> Polytropon <freebsd at edvax.de> wrote:
>> 
>>> I would suggest to boot with the live system CD, e. g. of 8.0-RELEASE.
>>> It should not launch sysinstall automatically (you can even boot the
>>> CD into SUM), so you end up with a regular shell. First, check all
>>> the kernel's output for things that look... strange... and maybe you
>>> even decide to install the system without sysinstall (if THAT is
>>> what's causing all the trouble).
>> 
>> Unfortunately the LiveFS CD does run sysinstall by default - you need
>> to go to the Fixit menu to get the shell.
> 
> Yes - that's what I intended to suggest. :-)
> 
> 
> 
> 
> -- 
> Polytropon
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