Re: install/39409: netbsd installer will hang under VmWare

[David Holland <dholland-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR port-amd64/39409; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: David Holland <dholland-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
Cc: 
Subject: Re: install/39409: netbsd installer will hang under VmWare
Date: Wed, 6 May 2009 22:22:01 +0000

 On Tue, Aug 26, 2008 at 11:15:01PM +0000, dmda%yandex.ru@localhost wrote:
  > I've tried the following combinations:
  > NetBSD 3.1-AMD64 under AMD Athlon64 / vmware 5.5.3 - worked fine!
  > NetBSD 3.1-AMD64 under Intel E8400 / vmware 5.5.3 (Core2Duo) installer hung
  > NetBSD 4.0-AMD64 under Intel E8400 / vmware 5.5.3 (Core2Duo) installer hung
  > NetBSD 3.1-AMD64 under Intel E8400 / vmware 6.0.4 (Core2Duo) installer hung
  > NetBSD 4.0-AMD64 under Intel E8400 / vmware 6.0.4 (Core2Duo) installer hung
 
 Does 5.0 work?
 
  > it's only 64bit that fails.
  > and it hangs randomly.
  > Logs shows that it can't even print complete file name.
 
 Does that mean that the bootloader doesn't even manage to load the
 kernel?
 
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 David A. Holland
 dholland%netbsd.org@localhost