Bug 29052

Summary: Probing Devices, Please Wait forever...
Product: Base System Reporter: Christopher Kenna <boarder1986>
Component: i386Assignee: freebsd-bugs (Nobody) <bugs>
Status: Closed FIXED    
Severity: Affects Only Me    
Priority: Normal    
Version: Unspecified   
Hardware: Any   
OS: Any   

Description Christopher Kenna 2001-07-18 03:00:00 UTC 
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?

Fix: 

not known
How-To-Repeat: Attempt to install again.
Comment 1 Peter Pentchev 2001-07-18 07:55:07 UTC 
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

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Comment 2 Peter Pentchev freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2001-08-05 10:58:55 UTC 
State Changed
From-To: open->closed

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