Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2008 16:10:29 -0400 From: Steve Polyack <korvus@comcast.net> To: scuba@centroin.com.br Cc: Jeremy Chadwick <koitsu@FreeBSD.org>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org, Todor Genov <todor.genov@za.verizonbusiness.com>, jhb@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD 7 and ESXi Message-ID: <48F4FCB5.8030102@comcast.net> In-Reply-To: <20081014091431.A49137@trex.centroin.com.br> 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> <20081014061159.GA41939@icarus.home.lan> <20081014091431.A49137@trex.centroin.com.br>
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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. :-) > > - Marcelo > > Are you sure that you have chosen Other (64-bit) selected for the Guest OS type? I have never had an issue with using FreeBSD on ESXi. Currently running VMs include 6.3, 7.0, and 7.1-PRE.
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