Date: Mon, 13 Oct 2008 23:11:59 -0700 From: Jeremy Chadwick <koitsu@FreeBSD.org> To: scuba@centroin.com.br Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org, Todor Genov <todor.genov@za.verizonbusiness.com>, jhb@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD 7 and ESXi Message-ID: <20081014061159.GA41939@icarus.home.lan> In-Reply-To: <20081014023446.K78747@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>
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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. -- | Jeremy Chadwick jdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Administrator Mountain View, CA, USA | | Making life hard for others since 1977. PGP: 4BD6C0CB |
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