Date: Mon, 13 Oct 2008 21:35:03 -0700 From: Jeremy Chadwick <koitsu@FreeBSD.org> To: scuba@centroin.com.br Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, Todor Genov <todor.genov@za.verizonbusiness.com> Subject: Re: FreeBSD 7 and ESXi Message-ID: <20081014043503.GB40021@icarus.home.lan> In-Reply-To: <20081014003842.K46975@trex.centroin.com.br> References: <20080909154356.D66065@trex.centroin.com.br> <48C6FBCC.20603@za.verizonbusiness.com> <20081014003842.K46975@trex.centroin.com.br>
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On Tue, Oct 14, 2008 at 12:54:26AM -0300, scuba@centroin.com.br 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: ftp://ftp4.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/releases/amd64/ISO-IMAGES/7.1/ You can see the changes at the below Wiki (see very bottom of page): http://wiki.freebsd.org/JeremyChadwick/Commonly_reported_issues > It does not happen with i386 version. > Which is the best release to install in this box? Should I go > ahead with i386? If this is going to be a desktop box and uses an nVidia video card, you should stay with i386 (if I remember correctly there are no working amd64 nVidia drivers). This won't allow you to use the full 8GB of RAM you have installed, though, without building a custom kernel with PAE support (and there are known compatibility problems between PAE and certain kernel drivers). It's strongly recommended you stick with amd64 if at all possible. -- | Jeremy Chadwick jdc at parodius.com | | Parodius Networking http://www.parodius.com/ | | UNIX Systems Administrator Mountain View, CA, USA | | Making life hard for others since 1977. PGP: 4BD6C0CB |
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