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

[Ryan Coleman]

Then you can suffer through "crappy windows" or spend $50 on a hard drive... 


On Jul 22, 2010, at 1:15 PM, Rich wrote:

> No I'm not going to start ripping my computer apart because FreeBSD can't deal 
> with my hard drive. I think the problem is a shortcoming in FreeBSD where it 
> can't deal with drives that have old stale RAID metadata on them. I'm just going 
> to have to wait until they can. Until then no FreeBSD for me. Back to crappy 
> windows.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> ________________________________
> From: Ryan Coleman <ryan.coleman at cwis.biz>
> To: User Questions <freebsd-questions at freebsd.org>
> Sent: Thu, July 22, 2010 7:19:28 AM
> Subject: Re: system hangs on; "Probing devices, please wait (this can take a 
> while)... "
> 
> I agree, but I might start pulling parts and see if it works then. swap video 
> cards if you can, etc.
> 
> On Jul 22, 2010, at 3:28 AM, Thomas Mueller wrote:
> 
>> Rich, if you can't get either the installation CD or live-file-system CD to 
>> boot (FreeBSD), maybe your computer is allergic to FreeBSD?  I've had that
>> problem with both FreeBSD and NetBSD on the older computer (Cx486DX-2 at
>> 66 MHz; 1.2 GB hard drive).  One thing that could possibly help is if you
>> could get a custom installation kernel or running kernel, but you'd need
>> a different computer to build it on.  
>> 
>> Any way to cross-compile a FreeBSD kernel from NetBSD or Linux?  Does anybody
>> know?  NetBSD guide tells how to make customized installation kernels and
>> media, but I see nothing like that for FreeBSD.
>> 
>> You might read the sysinstall man page from FreeBSD web site.  Under NOTES
>> 
>> This product is currently at the end of its life cycle and will eventu-
>>    ally be replaced.
>> 
>> Under BUGS, toward the end
>> 
>>    This utility is a prototype which lasted several years past its expira-
>>    tion date and is greatly in need of death.
>> 
>> I guess you and I both agree on this last statement.  I also have to say that
>> splitting the installation sets into 1392 KB chunks like base.aa, base.ab, 
>> and so on, is much less user-friendly and more error-prone than one .tgz or
>> .tbz file for each installation set: base.tgz, etc.tgz, man.tgz and so on.
>> 
>> Tom
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