Oh, this is known bug in MacOSX VMware...

On Tue, 2008-01-22 at 14:06 -0500, Maurice Volaski wrote:
> I take it back. It actually does boot. But it takes *four minutes* of 
> black screen before I see SunOS appear. I regularly launch Windows 
> guests on my computer and they launch in normal time like any PC 
> would.
> 
> >make sure GRUB entry changed like this:
> >
> >-        kernel$ /platform/i86pc/kernel/$ISADIR/unix -B $ZFS-BOOTFS
> >-        module$ /platform/i86pc/$ISADIR/boot_archive
> >+        kernel$ /platform/i86pc/kernel/unix -B $ZFS-BOOTFS
> >+        module$ /platform/i86pc/boot_archive
> >
> >than boot, it should force 32-bit mode
> >
> >On Tue, 2008-01-22 at 12:00 -0500, Maurice Volaski wrote:
> >>  I am trying to install Nexenta 1.0RC2-b80 on VMware Fusion 1.1 (host
> >>  is Mac OS X 10.5) and I just a black screen. The guest for 64-bit. If
> >>  I boot into safe mode, it boots fine. So it may be a problem with
> >>  64-bit. If I try to setup the guest for 32-bit, then VMWare complains
> >>  that I'm trying to run a 64-bit OS. Is there any way to force Nexenta
> >>  to run as 32-bit?
> 
> 

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