On Tuesday 14 October 2008 08:20:22 am [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > 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. :-)
It sounds like vmware is not emulating 64-bit CPUs, but only 32-bit CPUs. -- John Baldwin _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
