Jeremy, On Mon, 13 Oct 2008, Jeremy Chadwick wrote:
|On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 02:44:13AM -0300, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: |> On Mon, 13 Oct 2008, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: |> |> |On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 02:04:07AM -0300, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: |> |> Jeremy, |> |> |> |> On Mon, 13 Oct 2008, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: |> |> |> |> |On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 12:54:26AM -0300, [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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. This will be my next step. I sent here first, once it's a boot loader problem, specific to 64bits version of Fbsd. I thought someone could faced the same and came with a howto to workaround. Thank you anyway. :-) - Marcelo _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"