Install of 6.3RC1 on Virtual PC 2007 hangs

[Ulf Lilleengen]

On ons, des 05, 2007 at 10:04:30am +1100, Dewayne Geraghty wrote:
> The installation of 6.3RC1 hangs at the line
> Trying to mount root from ufs:/dev/md0
>  
> the probes immediately before this were:
> md0: Preloaded image </boot/mfsroot> 4423680 bytes at 0xc0b47cd4
> ad0: 8195MB <Virtual HD 1.1> at ata0-master WDM2
> acd0: DVDROM <Virtual CD/> at ata1-master PIO4
>  
> This is being attempted via Virtual PC 2007 on a Core2Duo T5500 with 256MB
> allocated to the image, and 8GB to the VDisk.  The physical CD has been used
> to successfully install on standalone computers, so the burnt image is ok.
>  
> This isn't urgent but should be noted as there may be other virtualisation
> instances where RC1 doesn't install as expected.  We're happy to perform
> other tests as required.  We're staging 6.3 on Via C7's, and Intel with
> hifn's, and the notebook is used for quick testing of crash/burn work.
>  
I just tested it, and it also hung here at the same spot. Pentium 4, 512MB
allocated RAM. I tried both capturing iso image and using the machine cdrom,
but neither worked.

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Ulf Lilleengen