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Think it's the same... Not too sure though... I didn't have any ahci problems on 2.4.2...but it's definitely worth trying to get Opnsense running

Confirmed - pfsense 2.4.2 boots fine.  I'll keep monitoring this thread.

Did u do a clean reinstall or an upgrade? Whats your hardware?

and at which point exactly does it fail?

My instructions above are for after the upgrade from 17.7 to 18.1

Same issue with both booted from USB and booting from HD (So fresh install or upgraded install).  Stops at the same place as shown in the screenshot in the original post.

Might see if I can boot pfsense 2.4.2 - is it based on a newer FreeBSD?

tell us if it worked :)

:-(

No luck, was left with an unbootable system.  Tried the HPET, sata_rev and hint.ahci.0.msi=0 with no luck.  Tried various combinations too.

Back to 17.7 for now :-/

Awesome, I'll do an 18.1 upgrade, then give the following a shot if I have boot issues:

hint.ahcich.0.sata_rev=2

The HPET issue is different I think.  I did see an option in my BIOS to disable the HPET timer.  Do you have such an option?  Would turning it off help?

I did see other threads related to that issue which suggested a boot option could be passed. 

If anyone else has the AHCI Timeout issue, please chime in.

I did see this on a FreeBSD forum, but I'm not sure it's entirely related:

https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/51868/page-2

I'm new to OPNSense but hope I haven't overlooked something simple.  I have searched in the forums and found one related thread in German, but with no solution to the issue:

https://forum.opnsense.org/index.php?topic=7070.msg31436#msg31436

I built my own system to run OPNSense:

Asrock J3355M motherboard
4GB RAM
HP SSD

When attempting to install 18.1 from a USB Drive, it usually stops at the message shown in the attached screenshot (AHCI Timeouts).  I tried changing a number of BIOS settings, updating the BIOS, rewriting the install image to a new USB drive, etc.

I was on a couple of occasions able to get it to go past this point (not 100% sure what BIOS settings allowed that), but the installer did not list the SSD as a target for install.

17.7 installer works just fine.

Should I back up my config and attempt the 18.1 update from within 17.7?

Sorry if I've missed something simple, I've read what I can and searched the forums before posting.

Any info is appreciated!  Thanks!