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Date:      Fri, 18 Sep 2009 12:55:28 -0800
From:      Henrik Hudson <lists@rhavenn.net>
To:        freebsd-current@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: freebsd as vmware server 2 guest; crashes on boot
Message-ID:  <20090918205528.GA5807@alucard.int.rhavenn.net>
In-Reply-To: <20090918070927.GA7178@alucard.int.rhavenn.net>
References:  <20090918070927.GA7178@alucard.int.rhavenn.net>

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On Thu, 17 Sep 2009, Henrik Hudson wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> I'm running vmware server 2.0.1 on top of windows 2008r2 x64 and I
> just tried to install freebsd 8-beta4 i386 inside a x86 VM. It
> crashes right after the initial countdown screen.
> 
> After the time it drops down to another "Hit enter to boot
> immediately" and then it boots the kernel /boot/kernel/kernel and
> then crashes.
> 
> I have attached a screenshot of the crash. I tried both the ACPI
> enabled / disabled and the safe mode option.
> 
> This works perfectly fine with 7.2-i386 .
> 
> Any thoughts? or need more info?

Ended up being a case of bad ISO images. Seems to be an issue when
saving across an smbmount directly. Oh well, suppose I should check
my MD5 hashes more religiously.

Thanks.

Henrik
-- 
Henrik Hudson
lists@rhavenn.net
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"God, root, what is difference?" Pitr; UF 




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