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 Harper <ra...@freebsd.org> Cc: Rich <rl...@pacbell.net>; freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; freebsd-sysinst...@freebsd.org Sent: Mon, July 19, 2010 5:53:21 PM Subject: Re: system hangs on; "Probing devices, please wait (this can take a while)... " 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 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 >> doing anything or hung. What can I do to get this to install. >> >> AMD Phenom 9500 Quad-Core 2.20 GHz >> 2G RAM >> >> Drive: >> Seagate ST31000333AS > > This is probably just grasping at straws, but any chance your hard > drive is failing? Time to try checking the SMART data on the drive? Cheers, -Garrett _______________________________________________ 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"
