Hi everyone,
I'm creating a standard FreeBSD 6.2 ISO image that I can use to
perform unattended installations into VMware Server virtual machines.
I'm using VMServer 1.0.1, and I've hit a roadblock when sysinstall
attempts to create the root filesystem.
The first thing to mention is that VMServer is running on a CentOS 4.4
host OS, and the CPU architecture is a Via C3 Nehemiah. Technically,
the VMServer software is not supposed to work on the Via C3 line, but
the Nehemiah apparently supports the CMOV instruction that VMServer
requires. I've been able to install Fedora Core 6 successfully and
run it with no problems, so I'm wondering if I just need to find the
right options to configure FreeBSD 6.2 to get it to work.
Anyway, the VM boots fine, loads the FreeBSD ISO, and launches
sysinstall, but as soon as newfs is invoked to make the root
filesystem, I get this:
Making a new root filesystem on /dev/ad0s1a
Panic: privileged instruction fault
(auto reboot)
I've tried installing from the standard 6.2 release ISO as well as a
custom ISO with a recompiled kernel, but I get the same error either
way. I also tried disabling ACPI during boot with no success.
My custom kernel config is included below. My first thought was that
if I explicitly set the CPU to I486, that might help avoid the
instruction fault, but that doesn't work. I didn't see any other
options that looked like they would fix the fault, but I'm not very
experienced at kernel configuration either.
Does anyone have an idea how to troubleshoot this problem? Thank you
for any help!
Regards,
Greg Larkin
machine i386
cpu I486_CPU
ident VMWAREC3
makeoptions DEBUG=-g # Build kernel with gdb(1)
debug symbols
options SCHED_4BSD # 4BSD scheduler
options PREEMPTION # Enable kernel thread
preemption
options INET # InterNETworking
options FFS # Berkeley Fast Filesystem
options SOFTUPDATES # Enable FFS soft updates
support
options UFS_ACL # Support for access control
lists
options UFS_DIRHASH # Improve performance on big
directories
options MD_ROOT # MD is a potential root
device
options NFSCLIENT # Network Filesystem Client
options NFSSERVER # Network Filesystem Server
options NFS_ROOT # NFS usable as /, requires
NFSCLIENT
options CD9660 # ISO 9660 Filesystem
options PROCFS # Process filesystem (requires
PSEUDOFS)
options PSEUDOFS # Pseudo-filesystem framework
options GEOM_GPT # GUID Partition Tables.
options COMPAT_43 # Compatible with BSD 4.3
[KEEP THIS!]
options COMPAT_FREEBSD4 # Compatible with FreeBSD4
options COMPAT_FREEBSD5 # Compatible with FreeBSD5
options SCSI_DELAY=5000 # Delay (in ms) before probing
SCSI
options KTRACE # ktrace(1) support
options SYSVSHM # SYSV-style shared memory
options SYSVMSG # SYSV-style message queues
options SYSVSEM # SYSV-style semaphores
options _KPOSIX_PRIORITY_SCHEDULING # POSIX P1003_1B real-time
extensions
options KBD_INSTALL_CDEV # install a CDEV entry in /dev
options ADAPTIVE_GIANT # Giant mutex is adaptive.
device apic # I/O APIC
device pci
device ata
device atadisk # ATA disk drives
device atapicd # ATAPI CDROM drives
device atapifd # ATAPI floppy drives
options ATA_STATIC_ID # Static device numbering
device ahb # EISA AHA1742 family
device ahc # AHA2940 and onboard AIC7xxx devices
options AHC_REG_PRETTY_PRINT # Print register bitfields in
debug
# output. Adds ~128k to
driver.
device ahd # AHA39320/29320 and onboard AIC79xx
devices
options AHD_REG_PRETTY_PRINT # Print register bitfields in
debug
# output. Adds ~215k to
driver.
device mpt # LSI-Logic MPT-Fusion
device bt # Buslogic/Mylex MultiMaster SCSI
adapters
device scbus # SCSI bus (required for SCSI)
device ch # SCSI media changers
device da # Direct Access (disks)
device sa # Sequential Access (tape etc)
device cd # CD
device pass # Passthrough device (direct SCSI
access)
device ses # SCSI Environmental Services (and
SAF-TE)
device atkbdc # AT keyboard controller
device atkbd # AT keyboard
device psm # PS/2 mouse
device kbdmux # keyboard multiplexer
device vga # VGA video card driver
device splash # Splash screen and screen saver
support
device sc
device pmtimer
device sio # 8250, 16[45]50 based serial ports
device ppc
device ppbus # Parallel port bus (required)
device lpt # Printer
device ppi # Parallel port interface device
device em # Intel PRO/1000 adapter Gigabit
Ethernet Card
device miibus # MII bus support
device lnc # NE2100, NE32-VL Lance Ethernet cards
device loop # Network loopback
device random # Entropy device
device ether # Ethernet support
device sl # Kernel SLIP
device ppp # Kernel PPP
device tun # Packet tunnel.
device pty # Pseudo-ttys (telnet etc)
device md # Memory "disks"
device gif # IPv6 and IPv4 tunneling
device faith # IPv6-to-IPv4 relaying (translation)
device bpf # Berkeley packet filter
device uhci # UHCI PCI->USB interface
device ohci # OHCI PCI->USB interface
device ehci # EHCI PCI->USB interface (USB 2.0)
device usb # USB Bus (required)
device ugen # Generic
device uhid # "Human Interface Devices"
device ukbd # Keyboard
device ulpt # Printer
device umass # Disks/Mass storage - Requires scbus
and da
device ums # Mouse
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