Fwd: FreeBSD 8.x and RAID Controllers from Areca and HP

[Brian A. Seklecki (CFI NOC)]

On 9/29/2010 2:07 AM, Maechler Philippe wrote:
> p from the cd the installer hangs with:
> run_interrupt_driven_hooks: still waiting after 60 seconds for xpt_config
> run_interrupt_driven_hooks: still waiting after 120 seconds for xpt_config

We may need you to get us the results of a "verbose boot"; best way to 
get that off of a system that wont boot is to setup a one-time serial 
console session and catch the output to a log on a laptop.

Build a headless install ISO from a healthy system?

~BAS

> and then the machine freezes. This happens on FreeBSD 7.3 - 8.1
> (AMD64and i386).
> On FreeBSD 7.2 i386 there is no problem with the areca