From owner-freebsd-embedded@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Sep 13 20:13:10 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-embedded@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 608EC1065676 for ; Sun, 13 Sep 2009 20:13:10 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from ask@develooper.com) Received: from x8.develooper.com (x8.develooper.com [207.171.7.208]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2F5518FC0C for ; Sun, 13 Sep 2009 20:13:09 +0000 (UTC) Received: (qmail 8944 invoked from network); 13 Sep 2009 19:46:27 -0000 Received: from gw.develooper.com (HELO embla.bn.dev) (ask@mail.dev@64.81.84.140) by smtp.develooper.com with ESMTPA; 13 Sep 2009 19:46:27 -0000 From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?Ask_Bj=F8rn_Hansen?= Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Date: Sun, 13 Sep 2009 12:46:26 -0700 Message-Id: <32CA43D9-7E99-46FA-80E2-9819E9E0387E@develooper.com> To: freebsd-embedded@freebsd.org Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v1076) X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.1076) Subject: NanoBSD on VMware (no serial console) X-BeenThere: freebsd-embedded@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Dedicated and Embedded Systems List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 13 Sep 2009 20:13:10 -0000 Hi everyone, I used qemu-img (on a Linux box) to convert my nanobsd image to vmdk (vmware disk) format to try booting it on VMware. When I'm booting on that image, it gets stuck at the "BTX loader 1.00 BTX version is 1.02" line. I suspect because my NanoBSD image is setup to just boot on devices with serial ports (which is all I've needed so far). What do I need to do to make it work with either a regular monitor or the serial port if there's no keyboard/monitor? For boot0cfg I use boot0sio, do I need to make two separate images just to have different boot loaders? I also have hint.atkbdc.0.disabled="1" in my boot/loader.conf -- I can't figure out where the documentation for that is, but I'm guessing for my "PC boot" image I need to not have that, right? - ask