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, please wait (this can take a while)... " Rich, Here they are: 8.0 i386: ftp://ftp11.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ISO-IMAGES-i386/8.0/8.0-RELEASE-i386-livefs.iso 8.0 AMD64: ftp://ftp11.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/ISO-IMAGES-amd64/8.0/8.0-RELEASE-amd64-livefs.iso Each is < 640MB On Jul 19, 2010, at 8:11 PM, Rich wrote: > 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 somewhere I can get the 8.0 live CD? > > > > ________________________________ > From: Polytropon <free...@edvax.de> > To: Bruce Cran <br...@cran.org.uk> > Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Rich <rl...@pacbell.net> > Sent: Mon, July 19, 2010 4:34:18 PM > Subject: Re: system hangs on; "Probing devices, please wait (this can take a > while)... " > > 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 into SUM), so you end up with a regular shell. First, check all >>> the kernel's output for things that look... strange... and maybe you >>> even decide to install the system without sysinstall (if THAT is >>> what's causing all the trouble). >> >> Unfortunately the LiveFS CD does run sysinstall by default - you need >> to go to the Fixit menu to get the shell. > > Yes - that's what I intended to suggest. :-) > > > > > -- > Polytropon > Magdeburg, Germany > Happy FreeBSD user since 4.0 > Andra moi ennepe, Mousa, ... > _______________________________________________ > 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"