Probing Devices
Alexey Vesnin
AVesnin at mirknigi.ru
Tue Apr 5 05:08:51 PDT 2005
Stas Myasnikov wrote:
> Mon, 4 Apr 2005 18:55:46 -0700 (PDT), Srinivasa R Yarrakonda
> <yseenu at yahoo.com> писал(а):
>
>> I am trying to install FreeBSD on the second hard disk
>> of my windows PC. I have burned the
>> 5.3-RELEASE-i386-disc1.iso onto a CD.
>> When I restart the computer it reads the boot CDROM
>> and then reports "Probing Device (This will take a
>> while)". The sysinstall menu shows up but my keyboard
>> doesn't work with this menu. I think it hangs. Whats wrong..any
>> suggestions/advice is helpful..
>
>
> Do you have an USB keyboard?
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Not only USB keyboards causin' that problem - some cheap PS/2 keyboards
have a same one. When I faced that fact I just changed a keyboard - and
there was no troubles at all. I used BTC PS/2 mini - it works for sure.
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Alexey "Steel Scorpion 666" Vesnin
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