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Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2001 10:59:26 -0700
From: "Brian O'Shea" <boshea@ricochet.net>
To: Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org>
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Subject: Re: Making an existing VMware virtual disk "dangerously dedicated"
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On Thu, Jul 12, 2001 at 12:06:29PM -0700, Julian Elischer wrote:
> 
> maybe the server version confuses the bootblocks. 
> Does it think that it's ruinning headless?

I don't think so.  The BTX loader reports this:

    BTX loader 1.00  BTX version is 1.01                                        
    Console: internal video/keyboard                                            

I can boot successfully from CD and then load the kernel from the
virtual disk.  It just seems to be a problem with the boot manager.

Is your system installed on a physical disk partition or a VMware
virtual disk?  Also, what version of FreeBSD are you running?

Thanks,
-brian

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Brian O'Shea
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