Disks are not bad. Works with other OSes. Problem is with FreeBSD. I've tried versions 4.6, 7.2, 8.0 and 9.0. Only FreeBSD 4.6 boots without hanging. I've not tried 5 or 6 but I guess I could if it would help to narrow down what the changes were in those versions. Something obviously changed along the way to cause it to hang.
From: Randi Harper <ra...@freebsd.org> To: Bruce Cran <br...@cran.org.uk> Cc: Chuck Swiger <cswi...@mac.com>; FreeBSD - <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>; Rich <rl...@pacbell.net> Sent: Mon, July 19, 2010 11:19:06 PM Subject: Re: system hangs on; "Probing devices, please wait (this can take a while)... " On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 11:09 PM, Bruce Cran <br...@cran.org.uk> wrote: > On Mon, 19 Jul 2010 16:17:06 -0700 > Chuck Swiger <cswi...@mac.com> wrote: > >> There's not quite enough information here to identify your >> motherboard, but you should make sure there aren't any BIOS upgrades >> available for it, as those might help resolve this level of issue. >> >> Check your BIOS config for the disks carefully, and try adjusting the >> options you have. In particular, try choosing LBA mode rather than >> auto or CHS, and try to toggle through "ACPI (or SATA mode)" vs. "IDE >> (or PATA compatibility)" vs. "enhanced (often meaning some form of >> BIOS RAID is enabled)" and see whether any of them work. >> >> If that doesn't do the trick, you could wander through your BIOS >> menus, and disable all of the non-essential stuff like parallel & >> serial ports, second NIC, or anything else which is not needed, and >> see whether that does any good...but that's getting into stuff which >> is less likely to make a difference. > > > The code that's being run does the following: > > 1. Finds all network interfaces. > 2. Finds all CDROM, floppy, disk and network devices that might be > needed for installation. > 3. Finds all partitions on the disks to register. > > I'd guess it's hanging on a syscall somewhere, but there really isn't > much debugging output in usr.sbin/sysinstall/devices.c to know where, > unless the kernel has printed some errors to the debug console. > > -- > Bruce Cran > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org" > This is why I suspected #3 - maybe querying the disk and hanging because of bad disk? Hard to say without debug logs. -- randi _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"