Re: FB 9.1 boot loader problem in VirtualBox

2013-01-07 Thread jb
jb jb.1234abcd at gmail.com writes: jb jb.1234abcd at gmail.com writes: ... Next problem: the FB 9.1 dmesg differs on: - VB VM pnp bios: Bad PnP BIOS data checksum ... orm0: ISA Option ROM at iomem 0xc-0xc7fff pnpid ORM on isa0 Correction - on real hardware none of the

Re: FB 9.1 boot loader problem in VirtualBox

2013-01-06 Thread jb
jb jb.1234abcd at gmail.com writes: Hi, host=CentOS guest=FreeBSD in VirtualBox FB 9.1 installation seemed to be normal (there was a one page text at the end that quickly disappeared, but could not catch it ...), Perhaps those messages I could not catch were relevant, because it seems

Re: FB 9.1 boot loader problem in VirtualBox

2013-01-06 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 06/01/2013 11:19, jb wrote: Next problem: the installation's dmesg shows net driver em0, which is Intel PRO/1000 - and this is how install offers to configure the network; but my host has Broadcom Corporation NetLink BCM5787M Gigabit Ethernet PCI Express, which is bge0 driver in FB. How

Re: FB 9.1 boot loader problem in VirtualBox

2013-01-06 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 06/01/2013 11:19, jb wrote: Next problem: I selected powerd service during install, but after boot, there was error msg: starting powerd powerd lookup freq: No such file or directory /etc/rc: WARNING failed to start powerd Again -- standard for VirtualBox hosts: powerd doesn't work -- the

Re: FB 9.1 boot loader problem in VirtualBox

2013-01-06 Thread jb
Matthew Seaman matthew at FreeBSD.org writes: On 06/01/2013 11:19, jb wrote: Next problem: the installation's dmesg shows net driver em0, which is Intel PRO/1000 - and this is how install offers to configure the network; but my host has Broadcom Corporation NetLink BCM5787M Gigabit

Re: FB 9.1 boot loader problem in VirtualBox

2013-01-06 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 06/01/2013 11:19, jb wrote: Next problem: when I am logged out from FB, and I do (I tested it repeatedly) Machine-Close-Power off the machine to cloce VM with FB, then on subsequent VM Start and FB reboot I get error msgs: ... Trying to mount root from ufs:/dev/ada0s1a [rw]...

Re: FB 9.1 boot loader problem in VirtualBox

2013-01-06 Thread jb
Matthew Seaman matthew at FreeBSD.org writes: On 06/01/2013 11:19, jb wrote: Next problem: I selected powerd service during install, but after boot, there was error msg: starting powerd powerd lookup freq: No such file or directory /etc/rc: WARNING failed to start powerd Again

Re: FB 9.1 boot loader problem in VirtualBox

2013-01-06 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 06/01/2013 11:52, jb wrote: Matthew Seaman matthew at FreeBSD.org writes: On 06/01/2013 11:19, jb wrote: Next problem: the installation's dmesg shows net driver em0, which is Intel PRO/1000 - and this is how install offers to configure the network; but my host has Broadcom Corporation

Re: FB 9.1 boot loader problem in VirtualBox

2013-01-06 Thread Matthew Seaman
On 06/01/2013 12:09, jb wrote: A general question: to what extent is FB Install aware of installation env (VB here) ? If so, would it make sense to sanitize it to avoid offering install options that are irrelevant/inappropriate ? This is FreeBSD. It doesn't hold your hand and wipe the

Re: FB 9.1 boot loader problem in VirtualBox

2013-01-06 Thread Michael Powell
jb wrote: [snip] But I also could not ping: $ ping -c 1 google.com I have VM-Settings-Network Attached to NAT What is the correct setting here ? Vbox will not allow ping and/or traceroute type traffic through NAT. It states this somewhere in the docs. This normal to NAT. I've used both

Re: FB 9.1 boot loader problem in VirtualBox

2013-01-06 Thread Michael Powell
Matthew Seaman wrote: On 06/01/2013 12:09, jb wrote: A general question: to what extent is FB Install aware of installation env (VB here) ? If so, would it make sense to sanitize it to avoid offering install options that are irrelevant/inappropriate ? This is FreeBSD. It doesn't hold

Re: FB 9.1 boot loader problem in VirtualBox

2013-01-06 Thread jb
Michael Powell nightrecon at hotmail.com writes: ... What I have not done is tried all the various partitioning schemes available under Manual config. Possibly one, such as Dos MBR or BSD disklabel which I have not tried, may be broken boot-loading wise. I only went straight down the GPT

Re: FB 9.1 boot loader problem in VirtualBox

2013-01-06 Thread Michael Powell
Michael Powell wrote: [snip] The converse may be applicable as well, that Vbox has configurability to know a little something about the environment for the proposed guest. When creating a new VM, you can choose BSD in the Operating System drop-down and then choose FreeBSD or FreebSD-64.

Re: FB 9.1 boot loader problem in VirtualBox

2013-01-06 Thread Bas Smeelen
On 01/06/2013 01:51 PM, Michael Powell wrote: Michael Powell wrote: [snip] The converse may be applicable as well, that Vbox has configurability to know a little something about the environment for the proposed guest. When creating a new VM, you can choose BSD in the Operating System drop-down

Re: FB 9.1 boot loader problem in VirtualBox

2013-01-06 Thread Polytropon
On Sun, 6 Jan 2013 12:09:12 + (UTC), jb wrote: A general question: to what extent is FB Install aware of installation env (VB here) ? FreeBSD can only detect hardware certainly to a specific point. The idea behind virtualization is that it presents non-existent devices as if they were real.

Re: FB 9.1 boot loader problem in VirtualBox

2013-01-06 Thread Warren Block
On Sun, 6 Jan 2013, Matthew Seaman wrote: On 06/01/2013 11:19, jb wrote: Next problem: the installation's dmesg shows net driver em0, which is Intel PRO/1000 - and this is how install offers to configure the network; but my host has Broadcom Corporation NetLink BCM5787M Gigabit Ethernet PCI

Re: FB 9.1 boot loader problem in VirtualBox

2013-01-06 Thread Warren Block
On Sun, 6 Jan 2013, Michael Powell wrote: Matthew Seaman wrote: On 06/01/2013 12:09, jb wrote: A general question: to what extent is FB Install aware of installation env (VB here) ? If so, would it make sense to sanitize it to avoid offering install options that are irrelevant/inappropriate

Re: FB 9.1 boot loader problem in VirtualBox

2013-01-06 Thread jb
jb jb.1234abcd at gmail.com writes: ... Next problem: the FB 9.1 dmesg differs on: - VB VM pnp bios: Bad PnP BIOS data checksum ... orm0: ISA Option ROM at iomem 0xc-0xc7fff pnpid ORM on isa0 - on real hardware none of the above jb ___

Re: FB 9.1 boot loader problem in VirtualBox

2013-01-06 Thread jb
Matthew Seaman matthew at FreeBSD.org writes: On 06/01/2013 11:19, jb wrote: Next problem: I selected powerd service during install, but after boot, there was error msg: starting powerd powerd lookup freq: No such file or directory /etc/rc: WARNING failed to start powerd Again

Re: FB 9.1 boot loader problem in VirtualBox

2013-01-06 Thread jb
Matthew Seaman matthew at FreeBSD.org writes: On 06/01/2013 11:19, jb wrote: Next problem: when I am logged out from FB, and I do (I tested it repeatedly) Machine-Close-Power off the machine to cloce VM with FB, then on subsequent VM Start and FB reboot I get error msgs: ...

Re: FB 9.1 boot loader problem in VirtualBox

2013-01-06 Thread jb
Matthew Seaman m.seaman at infracaninophile.co.uk writes: ... There is no problem with interface em0, NAT, manual/DHCP config, and ping or traceroute. jb ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list

Re: FB 9.1 boot loader problem in VirtualBox

2013-01-06 Thread Polytropon
On Sun, 6 Jan 2013 19:02:43 + (UTC), jb wrote: Right, but the wordings are unfortunate and counterintuitive/misleading: 'Machine-Close-Send shutdown' means to 'shutdown -p now' (equivalent to 'poweroff') of Guest, followed by unforced Close of VM. 'Machine-Close-Power off' means Kill

Re: FB 9.1 boot loader problem in VirtualBox

2013-01-06 Thread jb
Polytropon freebsd at edvax.de writes: ... However, your transition of this knowledge to the terminology to be used in combination with _virtual_ machines makes sense. Maybe that wording is really not optimal. Kill guest matches today's understanding, but could possibly be formed better in

Re: FB 9.1 boot loader problem in VirtualBox

2013-01-06 Thread Polytropon
On Sun, 6 Jan 2013 20:02:04 + (UTC), jb wrote: Polytropon freebsd at edvax.de writes: ... However, your transition of this knowledge to the terminology to be used in combination with _virtual_ machines makes sense. Maybe that wording is really not optimal. Kill guest matches

FB 9.1 boot loader problem in VirtualBox

2013-01-05 Thread jb
Hi, host=CentOS guest=FreeBSD in VirtualBox FB 9.1 installation seemed to be normal (there was a one page text at the end that quickly disappeared, but could not catch it ...), virtual disk was set up as ada0 ada0s1 BSD ada0s1a / ada0s1b swap but after reboot: No /boot/loader FreeBSD/i386