I experienced the same problem (same motherboard) ... both amd64 and i386 versions did the exact same thing ...
I got the installer to work by going into the BIOS and disabling the onboard firewire. On Tue, May 12, 2009 at 4:32 PM, martinko <gam...@users.sf.net> wrote: > Dan Nelson wrote: >> >> In the last episode (May 12), martinko said: >>> >>> I've just tried 7.2-RELEASE (amd64) on Asus M3A78-EM motherboard and >>> booting got stuck with the following: >>> >>> run_interrupt_driven_hooks: still waiting after 300 seconds for >>> xpt_config >>> >>> From what I've found via Google it should be fixed already but apparently >>> it is not. :-( >>> >>> Is there a way to work around this issue and successfully boot and >>> install >>> FreeBSD, please ? >> >> Do you have a connected firewire device? Try unplugging it during bootup, >> or kldload the sbp module after bootup instead of via loader.conf. >> > > This is booting on fresh new computer from DVD installation media. > And nothing is attached (except USB keyboard and VGA monitor;)). > > Btw, I've just tried booting recent PC-BSD (7.1) from USB drive but it > failed the same way, unfortunately. > > Any other ideas how to install FreeBSD on this system, please ? > > Cheers, > > Martin > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org" > _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
