From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Oct 14 18:40:05 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 A32CC1065692; Tue, 14 Oct 2008 18:40:05 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jhb@freebsd.org) Received: from server.baldwin.cx (bigknife-pt.tunnel.tserv9.chi1.ipv6.he.net [IPv6:2001:470:1f10:75::2]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1EE6B8FC1B; Tue, 14 Oct 2008 18:40:05 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jhb@freebsd.org) Received: from localhost.corp.yahoo.com (john@localhost [IPv6:::1]) (authenticated bits=0) by server.baldwin.cx (8.14.2/8.14.2) with ESMTP id m9EIdUh3025092; Tue, 14 Oct 2008 14:39:48 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from jhb@freebsd.org) From: John Baldwin To: scuba@centroin.com.br Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2008 13:15:17 -0400 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.7 References: <20080909154356.D66065@trex.centroin.com.br> <20081014061159.GA41939@icarus.home.lan> <20081014091431.A49137@trex.centroin.com.br> In-Reply-To: <20081014091431.A49137@trex.centroin.com.br> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200810141315.18229.jhb@freebsd.org> X-Greylist: Sender succeeded SMTP AUTH authentication, not delayed by milter-greylist-2.0.2 (server.baldwin.cx [IPv6:::1]); Tue, 14 Oct 2008 14:39:49 -0400 (EDT) X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV 0.93.1/8424/Tue Oct 14 12:10:56 2008 on server.baldwin.cx X-Virus-Status: Clean X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.6 required=4.2 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,NO_RELAYS autolearn=ham version=3.1.3 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.1.3 (2006-06-01) on server.baldwin.cx Cc: Jeremy Chadwick , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, Todor Genov 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 18:40:05 -0000 On Tuesday 14 October 2008 08:20:22 am scuba@centroin.com.br wrote: > Jeremy, > > On Mon, 13 Oct 2008, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > > |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. > > This will be my next step. > I sent here first, once it's a boot loader problem, specific to > 64bits version of Fbsd. I thought someone could faced the same and came > with a howto to workaround. > > Thank you anyway. :-) It sounds like vmware is not emulating 64-bit CPUs, but only 32-bit CPUs. -- John Baldwin