Hi, I am trying to install 8.1 from the DVD ISO download into a Hyper-V virtual machine. Whilst the DVD boots and I can traverse the menus (configure the disk, select the ports etc), the actual installation is failing with a "device not defined or unavailable" error. The system then reboots automatically. Booting the disc into the non-ACPI mode seems to get a bit further but then the installer gets to a stage where it appears unable to write data to the disk. Cheers, Tim.
Responsible Changed From-To: freebsd-i386->freebsd-emulation Reassign to emulation team, this is something virtual-ish
Is it possible that this bug and bug 153496 (http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=amd64/153496) are related in some way? FreeBSD on Hyper-V R2 worked fine with 8.0-RELEASE through 8.0-RELEASE-p5, so there appears to have been a breaking change between the 8.0 and 8.1 releases. As per 153496, I have an environment available for debugging or execution of test/debug cases if someone can tell me what needs to be done (e.g. point me at the documentation). -- David Rawling PD Consulting And Security
FreeBSD 8.1 and 8.2 currently appear to install and run fine on Hyper-V with VHDs smaller than 32GB in size, I suspect the bug has to do with memory handling for the virtual hardware considering segfaults and bus errors occur during setup This probably applies to David's bug report @ http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=amd64/153496 as well.
Pardon me, I meant 30GB in size Lippy
To submitter: does this problem still persist?
Feedback timout (> 3 months).