From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Mar 18 17:36:23 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DA8A21065675 for ; Fri, 18 Mar 2011 17:36:23 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from friedman@www2.emax.ca) Received: from www2.emax.ca (www2.emax.ca [69.13.38.98]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B4BC08FC13 for ; Fri, 18 Mar 2011 17:36:23 +0000 (UTC) Received: from www2.emax.ca (www2.emax.ca [69.13.38.98]) by www2.emax.ca (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id p2IHOqS3034059 for ; Fri, 18 Mar 2011 12:24:52 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from friedman@www2.emax.ca) Received: (from friedman@localhost) by www2.emax.ca (8.14.3/8.12.9/Submit) id p2IHOpTp034058 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Fri, 18 Mar 2011 13:24:51 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from friedman) Date: Fri, 18 Mar 2011 13:24:51 -0400 From: Friedman To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20110318172451.GA86228@emax.ca> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.64 on 69.13.38.98 Subject: Hung install (7.4 stable) X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: bfriedman@emax.ca List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 18 Mar 2011 17:36:23 -0000 I am trying to install 7.4 on an older machine, MSI K7N2 mobo, AMD athlon This board supports 2 SATA Drives and 4 EIDE devices, one of which is the DVDR. It will only boot from a CD and so I am trying to install from 7.4 Disc 1. The EIDE controller supports RAID on its disks. The situation so far is that after disabling the FDD in BIOS, I am only able to boot the install in "Safe-mode". The boot program recognizes the DVDR as acd0: ata0-slave UDMA33 I was able to creat file systems on the new SATA drive and proceed with the install but then an error message stating that install media cannot be mounted aborts the install. When the boot is run in normal mode it stalls after recognizing the sata drives, install drive is ad4: 750gb ata2-master SATA150 The last message is: ad6: PROMISE subdisks has no flags. I do not see any discussion of safe-mode in the handbook and would like to know exactly what this means. BTW the machine is currently running Ubuntu and has no problem with booting up from the Ubuntu install CD. Any help greatly appreciated. -- Barry Friedman Emax Computer Systems Inc., 480 Tweedsmuir Ave., Ottawa, Ont. Canada K1Z 5N9 bfriedman@emax.ca 613-725-3198