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From: Christopher Kenna <boarder1986@yahoo.com>
To: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org
Subject: Probing Devices, Please Wait forever...
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>Number:         29052
>Category:       i386
>Synopsis:       Probing Devices, Please Wait forever...
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       serious
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    freebsd-bugs
>State:          closed
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:  
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Tue Jul 17 19:00:00 PDT 2001
>Closed-Date:    Sun Aug 5 02:58:55 PDT 2001
>Last-Modified:  Sun Aug 05 02:59:13 PDT 2001
>Originator:     Christopher Kenna
>Release:        4.3
>Organization:
>Environment:
not applicable
>Description:
I downloaded the FreeBSD 4.3 ISO, burnt it, popped in the CD and booted from it, configured my kernel, and then I get the Probing Devices, Please Wait screen.  The screen stares back at me ominously, like a blue screen of death for over 40 (yes forty) minutes.  I pondered this and then asked a friend who has FreeBSD installed.  He told me that his went by in two minutes.  Distraught, I tried again to no avail.  What is going on here, why does FreeBSD freeze at the Probing Hardware screen?
>How-To-Repeat:
Attempt to install again.
>Fix:
not known
>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:

From: Peter Pentchev <roam@orbitel.bg>
To: Christopher Kenna <boarder1986@yahoo.com>
Cc: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org
Subject: Re: i386/29052: Probing Devices, Please Wait forever...
Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2001 09:55:07 +0300

 On Tue, Jul 17, 2001 at 06:52:51PM -0700, Christopher Kenna wrote:
 > 
 > >Number:         29052
 > >Category:       i386
 > >Synopsis:       Probing Devices, Please Wait forever...
 > >Originator:     Christopher Kenna
 > >Release:        4.3
 > >Description:
 > I downloaded the FreeBSD 4.3 ISO, burnt it, popped in the CD and booted from it, configured my kernel, and then I get the Probing Devices, Please Wait screen.  The screen stares back at me ominously, like a blue screen of death for over 40 (yes forty) minutes.  I pondered this and then asked a friend who has FreeBSD installed.  He told me that his went by in two minutes.  Distraught, I tried again to no avail.  What is going on here, why does FreeBSD freeze at the Probing Hardware screen?
 
 Before you get to the 'Probing devices' screen, can you try going into
 the visual kernel configuration, and disabling any CD/HDD/Tape/whatever
 devices that you do not actually have?  It just might be possible that
 a driver for some such device is trying to probe for its existence,
 and is somehow confusing your existing devices that happen to be configured
 with the same IRQ/port/DMA/whatever combination.
 
 G'luck,
 Peter
 
 -- 
 This sentence would be seven words long if it were six words shorter.
State-Changed-From-To: open->closed 
State-Changed-By: roam 
State-Changed-When: Sun Aug 5 02:58:55 PDT 2001 
State-Changed-Why:  
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