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

[Rich]

Yes I have, that's not it.  It's very frustrating because every CD I can find 
boots up except the FreeBSD CD. If it's not a bad drive nobody seems to know 
what else it could be. It's deeper than that. Something in the FreeBSD code. 
Isn't there a developer somewhere that can tell me what his code is doing? 





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From: Andrew Gould <andrewlylegould at gmail.com>
To: Rich <rl001 at pacbell.net>
Sent: Tue, July 20, 2010 3:52:21 PM
Subject: Re: system hangs on; "Probing devices, please wait (this can take a  
while)... "

On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 4:59 PM, Rich <rl001 at pacbell.net> wrote:
> Any ideas anyone ? I'm stuck. Cannot install FreeBSD on my computer. Every 
>other
> OS besides FreeBSD boots up and installs. What else can I check?
> ________________________________

Have you tried booting up with ACPI disabled?

Best of luck,

Andrew