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From: "Jason Boudreault" <eidolon@idealsound.ca>
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Thanks for everyones reply, the fix posted works fine and the system boots
up as normal!

----- Original Message -----
From: "Kenneth Vestergaard Schmidt" <kvs@binarysolutions.dk>
To: "Jason Boudreault" <eidolon@idealsound.ca>
Cc: <freebsd-current@freebsd.org>
Sent: Sunday, February 08, 2004 11:12 AM
Subject: Re: VMWare, FreeBSD 5.2


> On Fri, Feb 06, 2004 at 12:52:47AM -0700, Jason Boudreault wrote:
> > I just downloaded and installed FreeBSD 5.2 on VMWare Workstation 4.0,
on boot (even from cd) it crashes unless I boot into safe mode. Someone in
an irc room mentioned I should forward this info here.
>
> You can make it boot by adding the following line to the .vmx-file found
> in the same place VMware stores your Virtual Machine settings.
>
> monitor_control.disable_apic=TRUE
>
>
> --
> Kenneth Vestergaard Schmidt
>