Ok I booted on that disc and it hangs at the same place. not sure what to do
next.
What is the "fixit" menu?
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From: Ryan Coleman <ryan.coleman@cwis.biz>
To: Rich <rl001@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 <freebsd@edvax.de>
> To: Bruce Cran <bruce@cran.org.uk>
> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Rich <rl001@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 <bruce@cran.org.uk> wrote:
>> On Tue, 20 Jul 2010 00:59:58 +0200
>> Polytropon <freebsd@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. :-)
>
>
>
>
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> Polytropon
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