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
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
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?
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
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
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
On Thu, 22 Jul 2010 11:54:29 -0700 (PDT)
Rich rl...@pacbell.net articulated:
Lol, true.
Two top posters in succession. My lucky day. In any case, the OP should
NOT have to suffer the agita of being forced to due either. While the
ability do accomplish what the OP desires does not exist ab
Any ideas anyone ? I'm stuck. Cannot install FreeBSD on my computer. Every
other
OS besides FreeBSD boots up and installs. What else can I check?
I offered my admittedly cumbersome force-fitting suggestion. Maybe start with
a minimal installation, possibly base and etc only, or as little as
On 20 Jul 2010 at 23:46, Bruce Cran wrote:
On Tue, 20 Jul 2010 14:59:04 -0700 (PDT)
Rich rl...@pacbell.net wrote:
Any ideas anyone ? I'm stuck. Cannot install FreeBSD on my computer.
Every other OS besides FreeBSD boots up and installs. What else can
I check?
It looks like it's
On Wed, 21 Jul 2010 11:56:50 +0100
Dave d...@g8kbv.demon.co.uk wrote:
Hi, I'm not a developer (of OS's at least) but from that DEBUG:
list, it almost looks like it thinks it can see just about every
hardware device it knows about, existing or not, and is trying to
use them all.
The debug
On Wed, 21 Jul 2010 09:04:53 +
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;
From: Dave d...@g8kbv.demon.co.uk
To: Bruce Cran br...@cran.org.uk
Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Sent: Wed, July 21, 2010 3:56:50 AM
Subject: Re: system hangs on; Probing devices, please wait (this can take a
while)...
On 20 Jul 2010 at 23:46, Bruce
On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 8:45 AM, Rich rl...@pacbell.net wrote:
From: Dave d...@g8kbv.demon.co.uk
To: Bruce Cran br...@cran.org.uk
Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Sent: Wed, July 21, 2010 3:56:50 AM
Subject: Re: system hangs on; Probing devices, please
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
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
I had this problem trying to install FreeBSD on my old computer: Cx486DX2 CPU
at 66 MHz; 20 MB RAM; 1.2 GB IDE hard drive; 2x Texel, now Plextor, CD-ROM on
Trantor T130B SCSI (NCR5380 chip; no support in FreeBSD = 3.0); Iomega Zip 250
on same SCSI card. That was in the days of FreeBSD 4.x. No
Ok I booted on the 8.0 live CD and pressed Alt-F2 when it gets hung. In verbose
mode it says this:
DEBUG: ioctl(3, TIOCCONC, NULL) = 0 (success)
DEBUG: MADT: Found CPUAPIC ID 1 enabled
DEBUG: MADT: Found CPUAPIC ID 2 enabled
DEBUG: MADT: Found CPUAPIC ID 3 enabled
DEBUG: MADT: Found CPUAPIC ID 4
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
On 07/20/2010 02:42 AM, Thomas Mueller wrote:
I've wondered why FreeBSD installation sets (base, etc, games, comp, man and
others) are broken into pieces of 1392 KB each as opposed to each
installation set in a single .tgz or .tbz (base.tgz, etc.tgz, comp.tgz, and
others: that's how NetBSD
Any ideas anyone ? I'm stuck. Cannot install FreeBSD on my computer. Every
other
OS besides FreeBSD boots up and installs. What else can I check?
From: Thomas Mueller mueller6...@bellsouth.net
To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Sent: Tue, July 20, 2010
On Tue, 20 Jul 2010 14:59:04 -0700 (PDT)
Rich rl...@pacbell.net wrote:
Any ideas anyone ? I'm stuck. Cannot install FreeBSD on my computer.
Every other OS besides FreeBSD boots up and installs. What else can I
check?
It looks like it's stopping/spinning at the section where it parses the
Yes I have, that's not it. It's very frustrating because every CD I can find
boots up except the FreeBSD CD. If it's not a bad drive nobody seems to know
what else it could be. It's deeper than that. Something in the FreeBSD code.
Isn't there a developer somewhere that can tell me what his
On Mon, 19 Jul 2010 13:16:46 -0700 (PDT)
Rich rl...@pacbell.net wrote:
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
Ok well at least that's good to know. So I disconnected my hard drives and now
it boots up further on the CD only but obviously I can't install it with no
hard
drives. Why does it hang on my drives and what can I do about it? They are just
regular Seagate SATA drives. I have windows 7
On Mon, 19 Jul 2010 15:38:20 -0700 (PDT), Rich rl...@pacbell.net wrote:
Ok well at least that's good to know. So I disconnected my hard drives and
now
it boots up further on the CD only but obviously I can't install it with no
hard
drives. Why does it hang on my drives and what can I do
On Tue, 20 Jul 2010 00:59:58 +0200
Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote:
I would suggest to boot with the live system CD, e. g. of 8.0-RELEASE.
It should not launch sysinstall automatically (you can even boot the
CD into SUM), so you end up with a regular shell. First, check all
the kernel's
Hi--
On Jul 19, 2010, at 3:38 PM, Rich wrote:
Ok well at least that's good to know. So I disconnected my hard drives and
now
it boots up further on the CD only but obviously I can't install it with no
hard
drives. Why does it hang on my drives and what can I do about it? They are
just
On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 1:16 PM, Rich rl...@pacbell.net 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
On Tue, 20 Jul 2010 00:16:27 +0100, Bruce Cran br...@cran.org.uk wrote:
On Tue, 20 Jul 2010 00:59:58 +0200
Polytropon free...@edvax.de wrote:
I would suggest to boot with the live system CD, e. g. of 8.0-RELEASE.
It should not launch sysinstall automatically (you can even boot the
CD
I tried this but pressing F2 doesn't do anything.
From: Bruce Cran br...@cran.org.uk
To: Polytropon free...@edvax.de
Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Rich rl...@pacbell.net
Sent: Mon, July 19, 2010 4:16:27 PM
Subject: Re: system hangs on; Probing devices,
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 gcoo...@freebsd.org
To: Randi
Motherbd is Foxconn Digitalife A79A-S. BIOS settings don't make any difference.
From: Chuck Swiger cswi...@mac.com
To: Rich rl...@pacbell.net
Cc: FreeBSD - freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Sent: Mon, July 19, 2010 4:17:06 PM
Subject: Re: system hangs on; Probing
I couldn't find a live CD fro 8.0 Release. All I could find was at this site;
http://livecd.sourceforge.net/download.php
It's 4.6, is that useful? Anyway, it booted up to the login prompt without
hanging. What does that tell us? Is there anything I can check with this disk
or
is there
On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 4:32 PM, Randi Harper ra...@freebsd.org wrote:
On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 1:16 PM, Rich rl...@pacbell.net 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
Ok I booted on that disc and it hangs at the same place. not sure what to do
next.
What is the fixit menu?
From: Ryan Coleman ryan.cole...@cwis.biz
To: Rich rl...@pacbell.net
Sent: Mon, July 19, 2010 6:23:45 PM
Subject: Re: system hangs on; Probing devices,
On Mon, 19 Jul 2010 17:53:30 -0700 (PDT)
Rich rl...@pacbell.net wrote:
I tried this but pressing F2 doesn't do anything.
Sorry - I meant Alt-F2 to switch VTYs.
--
Bruce Cran
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