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Date:      Fri, 18 Mar 2011 15:50:58 -0500
From:      Adam Vande More <amvandemore@gmail.com>
To:        bfriedman@emax.ca
Cc:        Friedman <friedman@emax.ca>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Hung install (7.4 stable)
Message-ID:  <AANLkTinqxiRfx4B2dw9QgmVcxPOCSzQ23=ay97_rhjih@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20110318203147.GA38719@emax.ca>
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On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 3:31 PM, Friedman <friedman@emax.ca> wrote:

> You wrote:
> > On Fri, Mar 18, 2011 at 12:24 PM, Friedman <friedman@emax.ca> wrote:
> >
> > > I am trying to install 7.4 on an older machine,
> > > MSI K7N2 mobo, AMD athlon
> > >
> > First thing I would do is update the BIOS
>
> It appears that the BIOS for this board (MSI K7N2 Delta2 LSR) is up to
> date.
> (W6570NMS V7.8)
>

Seems that you aren't the only one with probs on that board.

http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/197306-30-installation-mystery-k7n2-delta2

Make sure your IDE settings are not in RAID mode, it should be straight
standard IDE.  If you do have it in raid mode, you may have to resort to
something like

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=ataraid&apropos=0&sektion=0&manpath=FreeBSD+8.1-RELEASE+and+Ports&format=html

-- 
Adam Vande More



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