From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Aug 20 23:12:51 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: questions@FreeBSD.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0B9B71065694 for ; Thu, 20 Aug 2009 23:12:51 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jfl@robinlea.com) Received: from 28amen.org (28amen.org [204.3.153.218]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B1DBC8FC52 for ; Thu, 20 Aug 2009 23:12:50 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [192.168.1.32] (118.172.71.131.adsl.dynamic.totbb.net [118.172.71.131]) (authenticated bits=0) by 28amen.org (8.13.6.20060614/8.13.6) with ESMTP id n7KNCkZM026439 for ; Thu, 20 Aug 2009 23:12:49 GMT Message-ID: <4A8DD86D.5020208@robinlea.com> Date: Fri, 21 Aug 2009 06:12:45 +0700 From: John Francis Lee User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.22 (X11/20090608) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: questions@FreeBSD.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Subject: about vbox and freebsd 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: Thu, 20 Aug 2009 23:12:51 -0000 08/20/2009 11:59 PM Hello Duncan Hutty, I write to you directly because I have posted several times to the list and have not seen an answer to my problem, and you seem knowledgeable about freebsd. I have a dual-core amd64 machine running ubuntu 9.04 with vbox 3.04 and have tried to create a freebsd guest on it. I've had a freebsd webserver at iserver/viaverio for about 15 years but still have not set up a freebsd box of my own where I can really learn the ins and outs of the system, and I'd like to. My problem is that I'm told right at the onset of the install that CPU doesn't support long mode Someone suggested that I was trying to install a 64 bit os on 32 bit system, but I don't think that's the case : jfl@ws3:~$ hwinfo --cpu 01: None 00.0: 10103 CPU [Created at cpu.304] Unique ID: rdCR.j8NaKXDZtZ6 Hardware Class: cpu Arch: X86-64 Vendor: "AuthenticAMD" Model: 15.107.2 "AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 5000+" Features: fpu,vme,de,pse,tsc,msr,pae,mce,cx8,apic,sep,mtrr,pge,mca,cmov,pat,pse36,clflush,mmx,fxsr,sse,sse2,ht,syscall,nx,mmxext,fxsr_opt,rdtscp,lm,3dnowext,3dnow,rep_good,pni,cx16,lahf_lm,cmp_legacy,svm,extapic,cr8_legacy,3dnowprefetch Clock: 1000 MHz BogoMips: 2009.02 Cache: 512 kb Units/Processor: 2 Config Status: cfg=new, avail=yes, need=no, active=unknown 02: None 01.0: 10103 CPU [Created at cpu.304] Unique ID: wkFv.j8NaKXDZtZ6 Hardware Class: cpu Arch: X86-64 Vendor: "AuthenticAMD" Model: 15.107.2 "AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 5000+" Features: fpu,vme,de,pse,tsc,msr,pae,mce,cx8,apic,sep,mtrr,pge,mca,cmov,pat,pse36,clflush,mmx,fxsr,sse,sse2,ht,syscall,nx,mmxext,fxsr_opt,rdtscp,lm,3dnowext,3dnow,rep_good,pni,cx16,lahf_lm,cmp_legacy,svm,extapic,cr8_legacy,3dnowprefetch Clock: 1000 MHz BogoMips: 2009.02 Cache: 512 kb Units/Processor: 2 Config Status: cfg=new, avail=yes, need=no, active=unknown I'm then dumped into an OK prompt and unable to do much more. Have you seen or heard of this before? Sorry to bother you if you have no clue yourself. Thanks for any help you might be able to give. -- John Francis Lee 1025/37 Thanon Jet Yod Mueang Chiangrai 57000 Thailand 08/15/2009 10:38 PM My problem seems to be that CPU doesn't support long mode Is that it? Can't get there from here? -- John Francis Lee 1025/37 Thanon Jet Yod Mueang Chiangrai 57000 Thailand 08/15/2009 10:20 PM Hi, I got a new machine, a linux ubuntu-running AMD64 based one, and thought I'd try out FreeBSD here at home. But when I begin the VirtualBox installation I get dumped into a shell-looking terminal with an OK prompt. I can't read all the instructions and frankly cannot do anything with it. I tried hitting the 2 before the timeout to boot with ACPI disabled but that seems not to make any difference. Have you heard of this problem before? Any help you might give appreciated. Thanks. I'll go see if the VirtualBox people can shed any light on the matter as well. -- John Francis Lee 1025/37 Thanon Jet Yod Mueang Chiangrai 57000 -- John Francis Lee 1025/37 Thanon Jet Yod Mueang Chiangrai 57000 Thailand