From owner-freebsd-emulation Tue Oct 1 16:41:59 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8F88D37B401 for ; Tue, 1 Oct 2002 16:41:57 -0700 (PDT) Received: from relay.boerde.de (relay.boerde.de [213.187.87.66]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1A20943E42 for ; Tue, 1 Oct 2002 16:41:57 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from shauwn@relay.boerde.de) Received: by relay.boerde.de (Postfix, from userid 639) id 4450A106BD; Wed, 2 Oct 2002 01:41:56 +0200 (MEST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by relay.boerde.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 422D0106BA for ; Wed, 2 Oct 2002 01:41:56 +0200 (MEST) Date: Wed, 2 Oct 2002 01:41:56 +0200 (MEST) From: Frank Reppin Reply-To: Frank.Reppin@boerde.de To: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org Subject: vmware2 from ports/probs with some OS's Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Hello, I have some problems to install some OS' within vmware2 from ports (the Makefile reads Makefile,v 1.45 2002/09/02 16:47:39) as version.... in particular this affects Microsoft Windows 2000 and the recently distributed RedHat 8.0). First of all i'd like to mention, that the box I am using is quite stable. No crashes so far - I also ran 'memtest86' without any errors. The install ISO's i used are also OK (at least did they work on several other boxes not using vmware2). Problem: Windows 2000: crashes immediatly after loading all device drivers. This happens everytime at the same stage... "Starting Windows..." in a very early stage of installing. RedHat 8.0: kernel panic :) after hitting to select the default graphical installation-mode. The error message shown here (whilst starting the kernel) : "Enabling unmasked SIMD FPU exception support... gerneral protection fault" ... and some lines later ... "Attempted to kill the idle task!" The same happens ofcourse too when I choose other installation modes. Google said, that this might be due to faulty hardware.... Windows 2000 shows an errormessage I cannot reproduce right now... but some google excersises lead me to faulty hardware. The same with the error message produced by RedHat 8.0 (btw. RedHat 7.0 installed fine and works fine in my vmware2).... but since memtest86 didn't returned any errors I cannot believe that any hardware here could be guilty. Especially since I read a lot of postings in here with working Windows 2000 installations. Any help would be appreciated. Let me know if you need some further explanations about the used hardware or anything else here. (it's an AMD Athlon XP1800+ on an EPOX8K7A+ [raid disabled] with 2x256MB PC266 Infineon RAM) Thankyou for your time, kind regards Frank Reppin -- no sig *sighs* To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-emulation" in the body of the message