Virtual Box VM fails to boot FreeBSD installer

[kendall.arneaud at gmail.com]

Was this problem ever solved?

On Sunday, December 6, 2015 at 8:12:41 PM UTC-4, John Aten wrote:
>
> Hello everyone, 
>
> Another virtualization problem: I tried installing FreeBSD 10.2 STABLE for 
> Amd64 into a Virtual Box (version 4.3.30 on Mac OSX 10.6.8), and ran into 
> trouble. I have had the same problem with both dvd and cd images. The 
> checksums matched, but neither image can boot the installer, giving this 
> message: 
>
> /boot/kernel/kernel text=0xfc7f48 
> readin failed 
>
> elf64_loadimage: read failed 
> can't load file '/boot/kernel/kernel': input/output error 
> Error while including /boot/menu.rc, in the line: 
> menu-display 
> / 
> Hit [Enter] to boot immediately, or any other key for command prompt. 
> Booting [/boot/kernel/kernel]... 
> /boot/kernel/kernel text=0xfc7f48 
> readin failed 
>
> elf64_loadimage: read failed 
> can't load 'kernel' 
>
> This is the message given by the CD image; I am pretty sure the DVD gave 
> the same errors, but I have since deleted the dvd image. I have looked 
> around online, and haven't been able to find anything on this. I have tried 
> different settings for the VM, and get the same thing. 
>
> Any help would be much appreciated. 
>
> Thanks, 
>
> John 
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