Drive is perfectly fine. Windows runs perfect on first partition. BTW both drives are doing it, I doubt both drives would go bad at the same time. Windows and Linux workfine. Only FreeBSD has trouble.
________________________________ From: Garrett Cooper <[email protected]> To: Randi Harper <[email protected]> Cc: Rich <[email protected]>; [email protected]; [email protected] Sent: Mon, July 19, 2010 5:53:21 PM Subject: Re: system hangs on; "Probing devices, please wait (this can take a while)... " On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 4:32 PM, Randi Harper <[email protected]> wrote: > On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 1:16 PM, Rich <[email protected]> wrote: >> I'm trying to boot on the 9.0 Current or 8.0 Release CD to install and it >just >> hangs on; >> >> "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. >> >> AMD Phenom 9500 Quad-Core 2.20 GHz >> 2G RAM >> >> Drive: >> Seagate ST31000333AS > > This is probably just grasping at straws, but any chance your hard > drive is failing? Time to try checking the SMART data on the drive? Cheers, -Garrett _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
