Re: 9.0-RELEASE amd64: No Boot on VMWare Workstation

2012-05-16 Thread Mark Linimon
On Tue, May 15, 2012 at 08:12:05PM -0500, Larry Rosenman wrote: > Would it be possible for the next 9.x release to set hw.memtest.tests="0" > when we discover we're under a hypervisor to avoid doing the tests? (or > default it to 0 in the installer kernel?)? Actually, that's already been fixed, an

Re: 9.0-RELEASE amd64: No Boot on VMWare Workstation

2012-05-16 Thread Brian
On 5/16/2012 8:04 AM, Adam Strohl wrote: On 5/16/2012 8:12, Larry Rosenman wrote: Ok, I'm just impatient. I let it sit, and it eventually came up. Would it be possible for the next 9.x release to set hw.memtest.tests="0" when we discover we're under a hypervisor to avoid doing the tests? (or

Re: 9.0-RELEASE amd64: No Boot on VMWare Workstation

2012-05-16 Thread Adam Strohl
On 5/16/2012 22:05, Larry Rosenman wrote: I believe this is due to the 8G of memory I put on it. (I like to build big VM's. It's directly proportional to the size of the VM. Ahh! Yeah I rarely build a VM with more than a gig or two here in the office (ie; where I use Workstation).

Re: 9.0-RELEASE amd64: No Boot on VMWare Workstation

2012-05-16 Thread Larry Rosenman
On Wed, May 16, 2012 10:04 am, Adam Strohl wrote: > On 5/16/2012 8:12, Larry Rosenman wrote: >> Ok, I'm just impatient. I let it sit, and it eventually came up. >> >> Would it be possible for the next 9.x release to set >> hw.memtest.tests="0" >> when we discover we're under a hypervisor to avoid

Re: 9.0-RELEASE amd64: No Boot on VMWare Workstation

2012-05-16 Thread Adam Strohl
On 5/16/2012 8:12, Larry Rosenman wrote: Ok, I'm just impatient. I let it sit, and it eventually came up. Would it be possible for the next 9.x release to set hw.memtest.tests="0" when we discover we're under a hypervisor to avoid doing the tests? (or default it to 0 in the installer kernel?)?

Re: 9.0-RELEASE amd64: No Boot on VMWare Workstation

2012-05-15 Thread Larry Rosenman
Ok, I'm just impatient. I let it sit, and it eventually came up. Would it be possible for the next 9.x release to set hw.memtest.tests="0" when we discover we're under a hypervisor to avoid doing the tests? (or default it to 0 in the installer kernel?)? On Tue, May 15, 2012 9:49 am, Larry Rosen

Re: 9.0-RELEASE amd64: No Boot on VMWare Workstation

2012-05-15 Thread Adam Strohl
On 5/15/2012 21:49, Larry Rosenman wrote: This is VMWare Workstation 8.0.3 booting off the release ISO. Ideas? Is this the installer that doesn't boot or is it the OS after you've installed? If its the former you might just have a bad ISO download. Have/did you verified the checksum of the

Re: 9.0-RELEASE amd64: No Boot on VMWare Workstation

2012-05-15 Thread Larry Rosenman
This is VMWare Workstation 8.0.3 booting off the release ISO. Ideas? On Tue, May 15, 2012 12:59 am, Adam Strohl wrote: > On 5/14/2012 22:18, Larry Rosenman wrote: >> Is there a known issue with 9.0-RELEASE on amd64 VMWare Workstation? > > Since nobody has chimed in I felt I should: > > I use Free

Re: 9.0-RELEASE amd64: No Boot on VMWare Workstation

2012-05-15 Thread Larry Rosenman
This is VMWare Workstation 8.0.3 booting off the release ISO. Ideas? On Tue, May 15, 2012 12:59 am, Adam Strohl wrote: > On 5/14/2012 22:18, Larry Rosenman wrote: >> Is there a known issue with 9.0-RELEASE on amd64 VMWare Workstation? > > Since nobody has chimed in I felt I should: > > I use Free

Re: 9.0-RELEASE amd64: No Boot on VMWare Workstation

2012-05-15 Thread Zenny
Did you tried disabling acpi to check? I had a similar problem, not with FreeBSD, but with DragonflyBSD. On 5/15/12, Adam Strohl wrote: > On 5/14/2012 22:18, Larry Rosenman wrote: >> Is there a known issue with 9.0-RELEASE on amd64 VMWare Workstation? > > Since nobody has chimed in I felt I shoul

Re: 9.0-RELEASE amd64: No Boot on VMWare Workstation

2012-05-14 Thread Adam Strohl
On 5/14/2012 22:18, Larry Rosenman wrote: Is there a known issue with 9.0-RELEASE on amd64 VMWare Workstation? Since nobody has chimed in I felt I should: I use FreeBSD 9.0 routinely under VMWare Workstation without issue (my current VMWare Workstation version is 8.0.0 which is slightly out o

9.0-RELEASE amd64: No Boot on VMWare Workstation

2012-05-14 Thread Larry Rosenman
Is there a known issue with 9.0-RELEASE on amd64 VMWare Workstation? I tried to build a new VM on my new Lenovo W520 Laptop (Windows 7 Pro/64-Bit, 16G ram) and it gets to the Beastie menu, and times out, then dies. Any ideas? What can I provide? And, is there an issue with 9 in general, or coul