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 <
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> 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
>
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