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
and then choose FreeBSD or FreebSD-64. I've had no trouble installing the
9.1 Release disk1 CD into a Vbox VM (amd64 version). 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
road.
Addendum:
Also, which I forgot and left out in my haste, I think I have seen most
reports of people having trouble seems to have revolved around the "Auto"
partitioning scheme choice in the new bsdinstaller. I avoided it and went
straight to "Manual" as I prefer to do my own. IIRC the "Auto" provides one
slice and one partition and throws everything in there. I still wish to have
separate partitions for /, /usr, /var, etc, so I've also never tried the
"Auto" scheme either. Maybe if this is the problem the OP may wish to try
avoiding "Auto" and proceed directly to "Manual". Might rule something out.
-Mike
Auto configures your system with three gpt partitions
freebsd-boot where the bootstrap code is installed
freebsd-ufs which is the / partition
freebsd-swap for swap obviously
There are no slices involved in the default installation.
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