From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Oct 3 1: 4:57 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 74CBA37B401; Thu, 3 Oct 2002 01:04:56 -0700 (PDT) Received: from salmon.maths.tcd.ie (salmon.maths.tcd.ie [134.226.81.11]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id BE9ED43E75; Thu, 3 Oct 2002 01:04:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from iedowse@maths.tcd.ie) Received: from walton.maths.tcd.ie by salmon.maths.tcd.ie with SMTP id ; 3 Oct 2002 09:04:07 +0100 (BST) To: Garance A Drosihn Cc: Mark Santcroos , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, emulation@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: vmware reads disk on non-sector boundary In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 02 Oct 2002 21:24:38 EDT." Date: Thu, 03 Oct 2002 09:04:04 +0100 From: Ian Dowse Message-ID: <200210030904.aa81031@salmon.maths.tcd.ie> Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In message , Garance A Drosihn writes: >I also have a partition with freebsd-current from two or three days >ago, and all the latest versions of the ports. Every time I try to >start vmware2 on the newer system, the hardware dies. Sometimes it >automatically reboots, other times it freezes up and I have to >force-reboot it (sometimes by unplugging it from the wall). See the patch I posted in: http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=0+6285+/usr/local/www/db/text/2002/freebsd-emulation/20020908.freebsd-emulation There may still be further issues, but it allowed me to use vmware2 on a current from a week or two ago. Ian To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message