Hello, I am a new convert to freebsd 6.0. I installed it on one of my old machine - a celeron 333 MHz, 98 MB RAM, with ISA slots. While installing it on my system, I faced a problem that it took a long time to load the freebsd installer menu. So I rebooted and selected the FreeBSD installation in verbose mode.
This is the verbose output snippet I recieved: ... pci0: <bridge> at device 73 (no drivers attached) pci0: <display, VGA> at device 16.0 (no driver attached) ex_isa_identify() ata: ata0 already exists; skipping it ata: ata1 already exists; skipping it pnp_identify: Trying Read_Port at 203 pnp_identify: Trying Read_Port at 243 pnp_identify: Trying Read_Port at 283 pnp_identify: Trying Read_Port at 2c3 pnp_identify: Trying Read_Port at 303 pnp_identify: Trying Read_Port at 343 pnp_identify: Trying Read_Port at 383 ... The problem is the last 8 lines above. It is I believe scanning some ports and is taking such a long time. After this the normal booting is quite fast. Is there any way I can disable this process of scanning that is taking place? After installing freebsd, each time I boot into it, it hangs for 30 minutes at the code snippet above. My uname -a command gave the following output. FreeBSD 6.0-RELEASE FreeBSD 6.0-RELEASE #0: Thu Nov 3 09:36:13 UTC 2005 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC i386 Looking forward to a reply to this problem. Kind regards Ravi ___________________________________________________________ Yahoo! Photos NEW, now offering a quality print service from just 8p a photo http://uk.photos.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"