From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Sep 21 00:35:19 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2F8E416A41F for ; Wed, 21 Sep 2005 00:35:19 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from freebsd@meijome.net) Received: from sigma.octantis.com.au (ns2.octantis.com.au [207.44.189.124]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B6DC043D55 for ; Wed, 21 Sep 2005 00:35:18 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from freebsd@meijome.net) Received: (qmail 8779 invoked from network); 21 Sep 2005 10:35:18 +1000 Received: from andromeda.lef.com.au (HELO ?10.168.101.24?) (210.8.93.2) by sigma.octantis.com.au with (DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA encrypted) SMTP; 21 Sep 2005 10:35:17 +1000 Message-ID: <4330AABF.20207@meijome.net> Date: Wed, 21 Sep 2005 10:35:11 +1000 From: Norberto Meijome User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.6 (Windows/20050716) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Aaron Peterson References: <45d750d2050920133744d85b32@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <45d750d2050920133744d85b32@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: FreeBSD 5.4 + VMware 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, 21 Sep 2005 00:35:19 -0000 Aaron Peterson wrote: > I've had problems loading/booting FreeBSD 5.4 in a virtual machine. > If I start in the default mode, it crashes VMware. If I start with > ACPI disabled it crashes VMware. If I start in "Safe Mode" it works > great. So... I want to learn about what is different about booting > in "Safe Mode" from the default boot options. That way I can further > troubleshoot and find the culpret hopefully. Thanks for any > information regarding this issue. > Hi Aaron, what host OS are you using? I dont recall having any problem with 5.4 on VmWare 4.5 Wkstation under WinXP. Beto