Opnsense 23.1 installation freeze asus z690 + 12700k serial port issue?

[GPz1100]

Board - Asus TUF GAMING Z690-PLUS WIFI D4
cpu - intel 12700K
ram - 32GB

This is my test system and completely bare bones. Using onboard video.

Attempting to install from a flash drive, the installer boots up to

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atrtc0: <AT realtime clock> port 0x70-0x77 on acpi0
atrtc0: Warning: Couldn't map I/O.
atrtc0: registered as a time-of-day clock, resolution 1.000000s
Event timer "RTC" frequency 32768 Hz quality 0
Then just locks.

Earlier I see something relating to a serial port.  The onboard serial port however is disabled.

Enabling it and changing the address/irq assignment seems to allow the installer to continue booting and actually get to the point where either the live version or installer option becomes available.

There is no physical serial port installed to the motherboard header.  It's unclear why the OS is even detecting anything related to a serial port when disabled in the bios.

I tried both the vga and dvd medias with same result.  Sure I can leave the serial port enabled in the bios, but would like to understand why this is happening.

Thoughts?

[GPz1100]

Here's some pics

Stuck here


serial port setting


If I enable the serial port at the default 3f8, irq 4, system boots but get no video.

If I change it to address 3e8, irq 4, system boots and I get video.

Similar behavior with the latest pfsense (development v27.xx).  So something freebsd related, and/or goofy with the motherboard (which is on the latest bios).