Lol, true.
________________________________ From: Ryan Coleman <ryan.cole...@cwis.biz> To: Rich <rl...@pacbell.net> Cc: User Questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Sent: Thu, July 22, 2010 11:50:58 AM Subject: Re: system hangs on; "Probing devices, please wait (this can take a while)... " 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.cole...@cwis.biz> > To: User Questions <freebsd-questions@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 >> _______________________________________________ >> 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" > > _______________________________________________ > 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" > _______________________________________________ > 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" _______________________________________________ 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"