From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Sat Sep 10 19:49:21 2016 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@mailman.ysv.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) by mailman.ysv.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7E6F2BD5495 for ; Sat, 10 Sep 2016 19:49:21 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rfg@tristatelogic.com) Received: from outgoing.tristatelogic.com (segfault.tristatelogic.com [69.62.255.118]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6A96417A for ; Sat, 10 Sep 2016 19:49:20 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rfg@tristatelogic.com) Received: from segfault-nmh-helo.tristatelogic.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by segfault.tristatelogic.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 307813ACDA for ; Sat, 10 Sep 2016 12:49:20 -0700 (PDT) From: "Ronald F. Guilmette" To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Need help: FAIL: Booting 10.3-RELEASE (64) on a VM Date: Sat, 10 Sep 2016 12:49:20 -0700 Message-ID: <38923.1473536960@server1.tristatelogic.com> X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 10 Sep 2016 19:49:21 -0000 I need to try to get rolling with a remote VM server/service. I sheepishly have to confess that I've never done this kind of thing before, and it is pretty clear already that I don't know what the hell I'm doing. I could use some help. I purchased a fractional VM (KVM) from a company called BuyVM. So far so good. but I wanted to run FreeBSD on it. So I diddled the virtual machine settings so as to have FreeBSD 10.3 mounted as an ISO on the vitrual CD drive and I then tried to boot the VM. Looking at the virtual console, the boot process started, and it looks like the install kernel even started to run, but just VERY briefly. Right after it printed its first banner line, the kernel panic'd as follows: ACPI BIOS Error (bug): A valid RSDP was not found (20150515/tbxroot-258) panic: running without device atpic requires a local APIC So, um, I am utterly lost. Can I fix this? If so, how? Remember, I have literally -zero- experience with VMs generally, so if you need to explain anything to do, please do, but you may have to dumb it down to my level. Regards, rfg