From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Mar 16 1: 2: 5 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from sonic.kks.net (sonic.kks.net [213.161.0.18]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0308337B400 for ; Sat, 16 Mar 2002 01:02:03 -0800 (PST) Received: by sonic.kks.net (Postfix, from userid 99) id 8B8A2154; Sat, 16 Mar 2002 10:02:00 +0100 (CET) Subject: Re: Install FreeBSD on vmware 3.0 To: 4snova2@gte.net, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG From: "Aleksander Rozman" Reply-To: andy@kksonline.com User-Agent: KKS Online Webmail X-Originating-IP: 164.8.251.36 Message-Id: <20020316090200.8B8A2154@sonic.kks.net> Date: Sat, 16 Mar 2002 10:02:00 +0100 (CET) Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Poslal Jeff: > Hi All, > I've been attempting to install FreeBSD on my vmware 3.0 for several days. The problem is that the installed system will not boot properly. > > Vmware states there is a disk geometry problem with versions earlier than 4.4 but I've actually used 4.4 and 4.5 (with IDE CD drive) without success. Also I've checked the disk geometry even going so far as placing a dos partition on the system to help it choose the right one. The geometry does change for the 8 Gig system with the dos as expected to 1044/255/63 but then the system enters an infinitely SLOOOOOW boot (at this point the laptop fan starts to run more making me wonder if the processor is really working overtime to boot; but that may just be paranoia). > > Certainly something else is wrong with the way FreeBSD works with vmware. I've tried every kind of trick I can think of including different bootloaders. Any Ideas. > > Jeff > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message