From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Oct 14 05:03:55 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4AF651065688 for ; Tue, 14 Oct 2008 05:03:55 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from scuba@centroin.com.br) Received: from raptor.centroin.com (asmtp.centroin.com [64.251.27.169]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 107F48FC12 for ; Tue, 14 Oct 2008 05:03:54 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from scuba@centroin.com.br) Received: from trex.centroin.com.br (trex.centroin.com.br [200.225.63.134]) (authenticated bits=0) by raptor.centroin.com (8.14.3/8.13.8/CIP SMTP HOST) with ESMTP id m9E58XSl057554; Tue, 14 Oct 2008 02:08:41 -0300 (BRT) (envelope-from scuba@centroin.com.br) Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2008 02:04:07 -0300 (BRT) From: scuba@centroin.com.br Sender: mpsouza@trex.centroin.com.br To: Jeremy Chadwick In-Reply-To: <20081014043503.GB40021@icarus.home.lan> Message-ID: <20081014015746.X78747@trex.centroin.com.br> References: <20080909154356.D66065@trex.centroin.com.br> <48C6FBCC.20603@za.verizonbusiness.com> <20081014003842.K46975@trex.centroin.com.br> <20081014043503.GB40021@icarus.home.lan> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org, Todor Genov Subject: Re: FreeBSD 7 and ESXi X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2008 05:03:55 -0000 Jeremy, On Mon, 13 Oct 2008, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: |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: The same behavior with 7.1-BETA2. |> 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). It'll be a production server, not a desktop. |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. In fact I'll not give the entire memory to this virtual machine. But I would like to use the full resources of 64bits CPU capacity. - Marcelo