From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Feb 8 21:43:09 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BA6F816A4CE for ; Tue, 8 Feb 2005 21:43:09 +0000 (GMT) Received: from smtp2.bahnhof.se (smtp2.bahnhof.se [213.80.101.12]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A4DB843D3F for ; Tue, 8 Feb 2005 21:43:08 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from mark.rowlands@mypost.se) Received: from mfilter2.bahnhof.se (mail.bahnhof.se [213.136.33.1]) by re-injector-s2.bahnhof.se (Postfix) with ESMTP id 913DA895A8; Tue, 8 Feb 2005 22:43:05 +0100 (CET) Received: from localhost (mfilter2.local [127.0.0.1]) by re-injector2.bahnhof.se (Postfix) with ESMTP id 28758AA529; Tue, 8 Feb 2005 22:43:05 +0100 (CET) Received: from smtp4.bahnhof.se ([213.136.33.1]) by localhost (mfilter2.bahnhof.se [10.0.1.22]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 23438-02; Tue, 8 Feb 2005 22:43:03 +0100 (CET) Received: from pcmarpxy.mwrwin2k.se (81-170-150-191.bahnhofbredband.net [81.170.150.191]) by smtp4.bahnhof.se (Postfix) with ESMTP id D9929195A0C; Tue, 8 Feb 2005 22:43:02 +0100 (CET) Received: from localhost (localhost.mwrwin2k.se [127.0.0.1]) by pcmarpxy.mwrwin2k.se (Postfix) with ESMTP id 16C0DACBE4; Tue, 8 Feb 2005 22:43:31 +0100 (CET) Received: from pcmarpxy.mwrwin2k.se ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (pcmarpxy.mwrwin2k.se [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 67260-04; Tue, 8 Feb 2005 22:43:30 +0100 (CET) Received: from localhost.mwrwin2k.se (localhost.mwrwin2k.se [127.0.0.1]) by pcmarpxy.mwrwin2k.se (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0C3C6AC801; Tue, 8 Feb 2005 22:43:30 +0100 (CET) From: Mark Rowlands To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Tue, 8 Feb 2005 22:43:27 +0100 User-Agent: KMail/1.7.2 References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-15" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200502082243.28699.mark.rowlands@mypost.se> X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at bahnhof.se X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-0.488 tagged_above=-999 required=9 tests=AWL, BAYES_00, RCVD_IN_NJABL_DUL, RCVD_IN_SORBS_DUL X-Spam-Level: cc: Richard Blanchard Subject: Re: Failed Install Gigabyte motherboard w/RAID X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: mark.rowlands@mypost.se List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 08 Feb 2005 21:43:09 -0000 On Tuesday 08 February 2005 20:45, Richard Blanchard wrote: > Hello, > I have been trying to install FreeBSD on my machine with a new > motherboard with built in hardware RAID and the installation freezes at > system probing. Is there a known way around this problem? The motherboard > is a Gigabyte GA-7N400 Pro2 (Rev 2.0). I have configured two Seagate 160GB > IDE drives for RAID 1, have a PCI video card and PCI modem installed. I > also tried to install the operating system with the RAID turned off and > one hard drive on IDE 0 but the installation also failed. Any suggestions? > > Sincerely, > Richard Blanchard indicating which version of freebsd would be a fine place to start