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

[dmda%yandex.ru@localhost]

> 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
>
>
>  > 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?

I'm pretty sure, previous versions did hang while copying the files. So I 
assume they did not load the 
kernel.


> Does 5.0 work?

I tried it yesterday. At least, it did not hang and managed to bootup.
Kernel and shell started just fine. No problems so far.

Thanks for the fix and best regards