From what I've found, the HPET issue seems similar to: http://forums.freebsd.org/archive/index.php/t-25557.html
--Since KFBSD doesn't have a /boot/loader.conf, not sure how to tell it how to boot without ACPI by passing GRUB parms to the kernel.... > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > Sent: Sun, 09 Sep 2012 16:16:36 +0100 > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Kfreebsd Install of 8-28 mini.iso SUCCESS :) - with > outstanding X issue > > On 09/09/12 15:46, Dave Bechtel wrote: >> I added "no-hpet" to KFBSD /etc/default/grub > > Sorry, not quite what I meant. That won't work... > > I don't think any parameter passed in from GRUB can avoid this. > >> All other Vmware guests are working fine, so I'd rather not set that >> option on the host, which has: >> GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="vga=773 elevator=deadline" > > Also I didn't mean for you to change that either; that controls the the > host's use of the system's real HPET device. > > > What I really meant is that VMware is emulating a virtual HPET device > and providing that to the guest. I think disabling it would help to > avoid this crash. I'm not familiar with VMware, but for example Qemu > has a -no-hpet argument and Xen has an (hpet 0) option for exactly this. > > [I suspect the FreeBSD kernel, since 9.0, inappropriately guesses (based > on IRQ number) what devices to use level-triggered interrupts for and > will try to do this for the HPET; some virtualisation platforms don't > seems to like it]. > > Regards, > -- > Steven Chamberlain > [email protected] > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > [email protected] > Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected] ____________________________________________________________ GET FREE SMILEYS FOR YOUR IM & EMAIL - Learn more at http://www.inbox.com/smileys Works with AIM®, MSN® Messenger, Yahoo!® Messenger, ICQ®, Google Talk™ and most webmails -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
