FreeBSD 9.3-RC2 and vmware 5.1 esxi (not a duplicate)

Glen Barber gjb at FreeBSD.org
Tue Jul 1 01:36:08 UTC 2014


On Mon, Jun 30, 2014 at 06:34:01PM -0700, Dave Hayes wrote:
> This may look like a duplicate of
> 
>   <53B1DB21.7020900 at jetcafe.org>
> 
> but it isn't. It's the same issue, but now it also belongs to the stock ISO.
> We tested the stock FreeBSD 9.3-RC2 iso on vmware 5.1 esxi as a guest. It
> says clearly
> 
>   CD Loader 1.2
> 
> and then there's screen gibberish which seems to indicate something is not
> found.
> 

Can you provide a screenshot?

> This evidence seems to indicate that there was a bootloader change between
> r255456 and r267340 that may be causing this; I am not familiar with the
> boot code enough to claim this is correct or not.
> 
> Does anyone have any insight into this issue? Should this issue be forwarded
> to a different mailing list? Thanks in advance. :)

Glen

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