slow clock on FreeBSD 7.2 on vmware

[Maxim Khitrov]

On Sat, Dec 12, 2009 at 1:18 PM, Robert Fitzpatrick <lists at webtent.net> wrote:
> On 12/12/2009 12:30 PM, Maxim Khitrov wrote:
>>
>> On Sat, Dec 12, 2009 at 12:06 PM, Robert Fitzpatrick<robert at webtent.com>
>>  wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> I found posts about this and a possible solution is to disable APIC by
>>> adding hint.apic.0.disabled=1 to /boot/loader.conf. But after doing so,
>>> it
>>> booted to the mountroot prompt and would not recognize my ufs:/dev/da0s1a
>>> partition when tried. I went to FixIt and removed the line from the
>>> loader.conf file and it boots fine. I do have some other things to help
>>> the
>>> pgsql db on this server in the loader.conf file, are they interfering?
>>>
>>> pgsql# cat /boot/loader.conf
>>> kern.ipc.semmni=32
>>> kern.ipc.semmns=512
>>> hint.apic.0.disabled=1
>>>
>>
>> Add kern.hz="100" to loader.conf.
>>
>> - Max
>>
>
> Thanks for the suggestion, but i added to the loader.conf file, but the
> kernel would not even load then, let alone getting to any prompt including
> mountroot :(
>

I've never encountered that problem. I have two VMWare servers running
7.2, and this is the only way to get semi-accurate time keeping. You
still have to run ntpd to keep the clock from drifting.

Maybe remove the other settings from loader.conf and try again with
just this one line? If the kernel still doesn't load, what messages do
you see on the screen?

- Max