FreeBSD 12.1 panics during boot from ISO

Hi,
I have some issues with installing FreeBSD 12.1 (amd64) from the official ISO images into a Parallels VM. I tried all kinds of ISO images (dvd, cd for both x86 and amd64), but no matter which image I choose, it always stops with an error message from the boot loader.

panic: zfree(0x7e4e9690,8224): wild pointer

Does anyone else see this behavior and knows a way how to handle this issue? I also played around with other settings for the VM (e.g. switching hypervisors), but to no avail. Any help is greatly appreciated.

Thanks,
Christoph

 

Hi,

Set vm.bios.efi = 1 to the boot flag in the boot order settings.

Kaoru

 

Hi Karou,
this did the trick, thank you!

Cheers,
Christoph

 

Just spent two days trying different ways to install pfSense, with no luck. Then tried just FreeBSD with no luck. Your post sorted it. Many thanks.

 

I used you trick and my problem is solved
Thank You

 

Awesome. Thank you for that

 

great and much obliged you posted about it

 

Seems to do the trick for pfsense as well. was getting can't load kernel before setting this
Thanks!

 

Same here (pfSense) and setting vm.bios.efi = 1 worked for me too.
Thank you.

 

Try this,
Set vm.bios.efi = 1 to the boot flag in the boot order settings.