On Wed, 21 Jul 2010 09:04:53 +0000 "Thomas Mueller" <mueller6...@bellsouth.net> wrote:
> I wonder if FreeBSD is the only OS with > "Probing devices, please wait (this can take a while)... " > > Nothing like this occurs in NetBSD or Linux; I've also installed > various DOSes (MS-DOS 4.01 and upgrade to 5; DR-DOS 7.03 and FreeDOS; > OS/2 1.3 through (Warp) 4) although MS-DOS 4.01 (back in 1990) and > OS/2 had their own problems. Only FreeBSD has sysinstall - that message gets displayed when sysinstall starts as it checks what devices are available for it to register internally. It's a message from userspace, not the kernel. -- 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"
