From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Oct 15 17:06:47 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BAF28106568C; Wed, 15 Oct 2008 17:06:47 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from scuba@centroin.com.br) Received: from raptor.centroin.com (asmtp.centroin.com [64.251.27.169]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 776EC8FC1A; Wed, 15 Oct 2008 17:06:46 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from scuba@centroin.com.br) Received: from trex.centroin.com.br (trex.centroin.com.br [200.225.63.134]) (authenticated bits=0) by raptor.centroin.com (8.14.3/8.13.8/CIP SMTP HOST) with ESMTP id m9FHBVmA099623; Wed, 15 Oct 2008 14:11:47 -0300 (BRT) (envelope-from scuba@centroin.com.br) Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2008 14:06:44 -0300 (BRT) From: scuba@centroin.com.br Sender: mpsouza@trex.centroin.com.br To: Steve Polyack In-Reply-To: <48F502D4.8040109@comcast.net> Message-ID: <20081015135223.P17609@trex.centroin.com.br> References: <20080909154356.D66065@trex.centroin.com.br> <48C6FBCC.20603@za.verizonbusiness.com> <20081014003842.K46975@trex.centroin.com.br> <20081014043503.GB40021@icarus.home.lan> <20081014015746.X78747@trex.centroin.com.br> <20081014051431.GA40846@icarus.home.lan> <20081014023446.K78747@trex.centroin.com.br> <20081014061159.GA41939@icarus.home.lan> <20081014091431.A49137@trex.centroin.com.br> <48F502D4.8040109@comcast.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Cc: Jeremy Chadwick , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org, Todor Genov , jhb@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD 7 and ESXi (SOLVED) X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2008 17:06:47 -0000 All, It's working with FBSD amd64 now. I had to enable the "Virtualization Technology" on the PowerEdge BIOS. Although I understand that this option could enhance some virtualization features, it's not clear that I HAVE to enable it to run 64bits OSs. Thank you all, - Marcelo On Tue, 14 Oct 2008, Steve Polyack wrote: |scuba@centroin.com.br wrote: |> Jeremy, |> |> On Mon, 13 Oct 2008, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: |> |> |On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 02:44:13AM -0300, scuba@centroin.com.br wrote: |> |> On Mon, 13 Oct 2008, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: |> |> |> |On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 02:04:07AM -0300, scuba@centroin.com.br wrote: |> |> |> Jeremy, |> |> |> |> |> On Mon, 13 Oct 2008, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: |> |> |> |> |> |On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 12:54:26AM -0300, scuba@centroin.com.br |> wrote: |> |> |> |> I'm facing some problems trying to install a FreeBSD |> |> |> |> 7.0-RELEASE-amd64, on a Dell PE 2950III, dual Xeon Quad core, 8GB RAM. |> |> |> |> After (FBSD) boot menu count down, it shows a dump of the CPU |> |> |> |> registers and a message: BTX Halted. No matter what is changed in VM |> |> |> |> setup. |> |> |> | |> |> |> |Can you please download the 7.1-BETA2 ISO and try it instead? There |> |> |> |have been changes to the FreeBSD boot loader between 7.0-RELEASE and |> |> |> |7.1-BETA2 which may improve things for you. The 7.1-BETA2 ISOs are |> |> |> |available here: |> |> |> |> |> The same behavior with 7.1-BETA2. |> |> | |> |> |I'm not sure what to do at this point, or what to tell you, since the |> |> |kernel can't even load. |> |> | |> |> |Are you installing this off of CD, and is the CD drive hooked up to |> |> |the PC via ATA/SATA (rather than USB or something else)? |> |> |> It's a bit more complicated, since, for some reason the Vmware |> |> client is unable to boot the VM from CD on the host server. It's |> |> booting an ISO image on the client machine. |> |> I already read something saying that it's a known issue of the |> ESXi. |> |> Without the virtulization layer, the amd64 CD boots without |> problems |> in this machine. | |> |Ah, so the truth comes out... :-) |> | |> |Have you brought this fact up with the VMware folks? They're quite a |> |nice bunch, I wouldn't be surprised if they provided a hotfix for you |> |for this problem. |> |> This will be my next step. |> I sent here first, once it's a boot loader problem, specific to 64bits |> version of Fbsd. I thought someone could faced the same and came with a howto |> to workaround. |> |> Thank you anyway. :-) |> |> - Marcelo |> |> _______________________________________________ |> |Also, to eliminate any chance of this being hardware-related, I am also running |this on a Dell PE2950 with a similar configuration. | - Marcelo