freebsd as vmware server 2 guest; crashes on boot

[Henrik Hudson]

On Thu, 17 Sep 2009, Henrik Hudson wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> I'm running vmware server 2.0.1 on top of windows 2008r2 x64 and I
> just tried to install freebsd 8-beta4 i386 inside a x86 VM. It
> crashes right after the initial countdown screen.
> 
> After the time it drops down to another "Hit enter to boot
> immediately" and then it boots the kernel /boot/kernel/kernel and
> then crashes.
> 
> I have attached a screenshot of the crash. I tried both the ACPI
> enabled / disabled and the safe mode option.
> 
> This works perfectly fine with 7.2-i386 .
> 
> Any thoughts? or need more info?

Ended up being a case of bad ISO images. Seems to be an issue when
saving across an smbmount directly. Oh well, suppose I should check
my MD5 hashes more religiously.

Thanks.

Henrik
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