From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Oct 14 06:12:00 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8EA50106568A for ; Tue, 14 Oct 2008 06:12:00 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jdc@koitsu.dyndns.org) Received: from QMTA06.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net (qmta06.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net [76.96.30.56]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6FCEB8FC12 for ; Tue, 14 Oct 2008 06:12:00 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jdc@koitsu.dyndns.org) Received: from OMTA10.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net ([76.96.30.28]) by QMTA06.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net with comcast id SVPK1a0040cQ2SLA6WC0Kp; Tue, 14 Oct 2008 06:12:00 +0000 Received: from koitsu.dyndns.org ([69.181.141.110]) by OMTA10.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net with comcast id SWBz1a0022P6wsM8WWBzlF; Tue, 14 Oct 2008 06:11:59 +0000 X-Authority-Analysis: v=1.0 c=1 a=QycZ5dHgAAAA:8 a=TKWlr2A5uWrxJ9WKavYA:9 a=ri43eTkzO2CLCFi3aUjg8UIKmkkA:4 a=EoioJ0NPDVgA:10 a=LY0hPdMaydYA:10 Received: by icarus.home.lan (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 09D16C9419; Mon, 13 Oct 2008 23:11:59 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 13 Oct 2008 23:11:59 -0700 From: Jeremy Chadwick To: scuba@centroin.com.br Message-ID: <20081014061159.GA41939@icarus.home.lan> References: <20080909154356.D66065@trex.centroin.com.br> <48C6FBCC.20603@za.verizonbusiness.com> <20081014003842.K46975@trex.centroin.com.br> <20081014043503.GB40021@icarus.home.lan> <20081014015746.X78747@trex.centroin.com.br> <20081014051431.GA40846@icarus.home.lan> <20081014023446.K78747@trex.centroin.com.br> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20081014023446.K78747@trex.centroin.com.br> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org, Todor Genov , jhb@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD 7 and ESXi X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2008 06:12:00 -0000 On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 02:44:13AM -0300, scuba@centroin.com.br wrote: > On Mon, 13 Oct 2008, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > > |On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 02:04:07AM -0300, scuba@centroin.com.br wrote: > |> Jeremy, > |> > |> On Mon, 13 Oct 2008, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > |> > |> |On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 12:54:26AM -0300, scuba@centroin.com.br wrote: > |> |> I'm facing some problems trying to install a FreeBSD > |> |> 7.0-RELEASE-amd64, on a Dell PE 2950III, dual Xeon Quad core, 8GB RAM. > |> |> After (FBSD) boot menu count down, it shows a dump of the CPU > |> |> registers and a message: BTX Halted. No matter what is changed in VM > |> |> setup. > |> | > |> |Can you please download the 7.1-BETA2 ISO and try it instead? There > |> |have been changes to the FreeBSD boot loader between 7.0-RELEASE and > |> |7.1-BETA2 which may improve things for you. The 7.1-BETA2 ISOs are > |> |available here: > |> > |> The same behavior with 7.1-BETA2. > | > |I'm not sure what to do at this point, or what to tell you, since the > |kernel can't even load. > | > |Are you installing this off of CD, and is the CD drive hooked up to > |the PC via ATA/SATA (rather than USB or something else)? > > It's a bit more complicated, since, for some reason the Vmware > client is unable to boot the VM from CD on the host server. It's > booting an ISO image on the client machine. > I already read something saying that it's a known issue of the > ESXi. > Without the virtulization layer, the amd64 CD boots without > problems in this machine. Ah, so the truth comes out... :-) Have you brought this fact up with the VMware folks? They're quite a nice bunch, I wouldn't be surprised if they provided a hotfix for you for this problem. -- | Jeremy Chadwick jdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Administrator Mountain View, CA, USA | | Making life hard for others since 1977. PGP: 4BD6C0CB |