Date: Wed, 19 Jun 2002 11:43:15 -0500 From: Steve Fettig <lists@stevenfettig.com> To: Jon Larssen <jonlarssen@hotmail.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 4.6-RELEASE & VMware 3.0 Message-ID: <3D10B4A3.7010205@stevenfettig.com> References: <F205lnTo4X943of4Xzy00010708@hotmail.com>
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Jon Larssen wrote: > Hello, > >> I tried what you mentioned in VMWare (my version is 3.1) and still >> have problems with it locking up - not in the same place, but same >> result (even using SCSI). > > > Well, let me tell what I did. First the virtual disk and the virtual > CD-ROM are attached to the "virtual" SCSI bus. There's no IDE/ATA/ATAPI > devices anywhere on this virtual system. > That's where my last attempt differed. I had set up the hard drive as SCSI, but not cd-rom. I also heard from another poster that activating DMA for the cd-rom might work, but I don't understand how one would activate it in FreeBSD if one can't even get past device probing... anyway, that is something else. > According to the VMware 3.0 docs, you can't boot from such CD-ROM SCSI > disks--at least in version 3, dunno in version 3.1. That means that I > had to create the old trusty boot disquettes. And _that_ did the trick. > No lockups, no nothing except FreeBSD 4.6 :) > >> You mentioned a "recent ATA" problem, but I don't understand >> whether you are relating to FreeBSD 4.6 or VMWare... > > > I meant the ATA/ATAPI subsystem in FreeBSD. Not even with the > workarounds (hw.ata.... variables) I could boot/install from a IDE CDROM > to an IDE hard drive (all inside VMware, of course). And I have a > chicken & egg problem with Søren's recent commit--I don't have ATA/ATAPI > anymore. Thus, for _me_, that's broken :( > I see. I haven't followed much of the 4.6 discussion (to be honest, I'm really happy with 4.5 other than XFree86 3.x still being part of the X install -- although I shouldn't complain. I have problems with 4.x, so I don't even use it anyway...) - so I didn't hear anything about ata/atapi problems... > This NOT to say that VMware is flawless, but 4.[2,3,4,5]-RELEASE worked > fine in VMware before :| > I'm going to try what you have done. OTH, I am going to stick with 4.5 on production stuff anyway. > Regards, > Jon. > Thanks! Steve To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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