about vbox and freebsd

[John Francis Lee]

08/20/2009 11:59 PM

Hello Duncan Hutty,

I write to you directly because I have posted several times to the list 
and have not seen an answer to my problem, and you seem knowledgeable 
about freebsd.

I have a dual-core amd64 machine running ubuntu 9.04 with vbox 3.04 and 
have tried to create a freebsd guest on it. I've had a freebsd webserver 
at iserver/viaverio for about 15 years but still have not set up a 
freebsd box of my own where I can really learn the ins and outs of the 
system, and I'd like to.

My problem is that I'm told right at the onset of the install that

   CPU doesn't support long mode

Someone suggested that I was trying to install a 64 bit os on 32 bit 
system, but I don't think that's the case :

jfl at ws3:~$ hwinfo --cpu
01: None 00.0: 10103 CPU
   [Created at cpu.304]
   Unique ID: rdCR.j8NaKXDZtZ6
   Hardware Class: cpu
   Arch: X86-64
   Vendor: "AuthenticAMD"
   Model: 15.107.2 "AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 5000+"
   Features: 
fpu,vme,de,pse,tsc,msr,pae,mce,cx8,apic,sep,mtrr,pge,mca,cmov,pat,pse36,clflush,mmx,fxsr,sse,sse2,ht,syscall,nx,mmxext,fxsr_opt,rdtscp,lm,3dnowext,3dnow,rep_good,pni,cx16,lahf_lm,cmp_legacy,svm,extapic,cr8_legacy,3dnowprefetch
   Clock: 1000 MHz
   BogoMips: 2009.02
   Cache: 512 kb
   Units/Processor: 2
   Config Status: cfg=new, avail=yes, need=no, active=unknown

02: None 01.0: 10103 CPU
   [Created at cpu.304]
   Unique ID: wkFv.j8NaKXDZtZ6
   Hardware Class: cpu
   Arch: X86-64
   Vendor: "AuthenticAMD"
   Model: 15.107.2 "AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 5000+"
   Features: 
fpu,vme,de,pse,tsc,msr,pae,mce,cx8,apic,sep,mtrr,pge,mca,cmov,pat,pse36,clflush,mmx,fxsr,sse,sse2,ht,syscall,nx,mmxext,fxsr_opt,rdtscp,lm,3dnowext,3dnow,rep_good,pni,cx16,lahf_lm,cmp_legacy,svm,extapic,cr8_legacy,3dnowprefetch
   Clock: 1000 MHz
   BogoMips: 2009.02
   Cache: 512 kb
   Units/Processor: 2
   Config Status: cfg=new, avail=yes, need=no, active=unknown

I'm then dumped into an OK prompt and unable to do much more.

Have you seen or heard of this before?

Sorry to bother you if you have no clue yourself.

Thanks for any help you might be able to give.


-- 
John Francis Lee
1025/37 Thanon Jet Yod
Mueang Chiangrai 57000
Thailand


08/15/2009 10:38 PM

My problem seems to be that

  CPU doesn't support long mode

Is that it? Can't get there from here?

-- 
John Francis Lee
1025/37 Thanon Jet Yod
Mueang Chiangrai 57000
Thailand


08/15/2009 10:20 PM

Hi,

I got a new machine, a linux ubuntu-running AMD64 based one, and thought 
I'd try out FreeBSD here at home. But when I begin the VirtualBox 
installation I get dumped into a shell-looking terminal with an OK 
prompt. I can't read all the instructions and frankly cannot do anything 
with it. I tried hitting the 2 before the timeout to boot with ACPI 
disabled but that seems not to make any difference.

Have you heard of this problem before?

Any help you might give appreciated.

Thanks.

I'll go see if the VirtualBox people can shed any  light on the matter 
as well.

-- 
John Francis Lee
1025/37 Thanon Jet Yod
Mueang Chiangrai 57000


-- 
John Francis Lee
1025/37 Thanon Jet Yod
Mueang Chiangrai 57000
Thailand