A bunch of use have colo'd a server at an ISP. We each run our own KVM (I have no other details at present). I've been running FreeBSD 7.3 inside my KVM (everyone else is running Linux. I encountered a problem when I tried to upgrade the install from 7.2-stable to 7.3-stable. The boot process hangs. The last thing shown is the memory in the system. I'll copy/paste from /var/log/messages to demonstrate the point last thing I can see on the VNC screen. Copyright (c) 1992-2009 The FreeBSD Project. Copyright (c) 1979, 1980, 1983, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994 The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. FreeBSD is a registered trademark of The FreeBSD Foundation. FreeBSD 7.2-STABLE #0: Thu Dec 3 20:37:29 UTC 2009 dan@latens.example.org:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/LATENS i386 Timecounter "i8254" frequency 1193182 Hz quality 0 CPU: QEMU Virtual CPU version 0.9.1 (3008.69-MHz 686-class CPU) Origin = "AuthenticAMD" Id = 0x623 Stepping = 3 Features=0x78bfbfd<FPU,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,PAE,MCE,CX8,APIC,SEP,MTRR,PGE,MCA,CMOV,PAT,PSE36,CLFLUSH,MMX,FXSR,SSE,SSE2> Features2=0x80000001<SSE3,<b31>> AMD Features=0x20100800<SYSCALL,NX,LM> real memory = 268369920 (255 MB) avail memory = 248524800 (237 MB) ^^^ last thing I see. I can get to the boot loader screen (which is how I booted from kernel.old) Suggestions? -- Dan Langille - http://langille.org/