From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Oct 14 20:47:23 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 78FE310656C0 for ; Tue, 14 Oct 2008 20:47:23 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from korvus@comcast.net) Received: from QMTA07.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net (qmta07.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net [76.96.30.64]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4E0298FC08 for ; Tue, 14 Oct 2008 20:47:22 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from korvus@comcast.net) Received: from OMTA10.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net ([76.96.30.28]) by QMTA07.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net with comcast id Sk2j1a00F0cQ2SLA7kcvzQ; Tue, 14 Oct 2008 20:36:59 +0000 Received: from [192.168.2.164] ([206.210.89.202]) by OMTA10.emeryville.ca.mail.comcast.net with comcast id Skcc1a00V4Mx3R28WkcfJo; Tue, 14 Oct 2008 20:36:52 +0000 X-Authority-Analysis: v=1.0 c=1 a=KW-qsGNqa1WgLLIA0D4A:9 a=Wp4bqZod18IzM4bmPGYA:7 a=o3S5JaVKDEyAPmXOpzSDzUCZLIEA:4 a=3DBYIOH7sHIA:10 Message-ID: <48F502D4.8040109@comcast.net> Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2008 16:36:36 -0400 From: Steve Polyack User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.17 (X11/20081006) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: scuba@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> In-Reply-To: <20081014091431.A49137@trex.centroin.com.br> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Jeremy Chadwick , 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 20:47:23 -0000 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 > > _______________________________________________ > Also, to eliminate any chance of this being hardware-related, I am also running this on a Dell PE2950 with a similar configuration.