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Subject: How to debug FreeBSD 8.2 booting problem on ESXi 5.1.0?
From: Jyoti Sharma <jyoti.mickey@gmail.com>
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I am booting from livecd and the booting process hangs at:
Booting [/boot/kernel/kernel]

What should I do to debug this?

The vm has 2 gb ram assigned to it.

Regards,
Jyoti