I get an error trying to start windows 7 vm install on FreeNAS 11

[Mervin]

I get an error trying to start windows 7 vm install on freenas 11
Error: windows boot manager
windows failed to start..
\EFI\Microsoft\Boot\BCD

 

[brando56894]

It seems like it didn't create the EFI partition correctly, try to reinstall Windows and make sure that the VM is set use EFI instead of EFI-CSM, also make sure during the installation that the EFI partition is being created during the partition disk phase.

 

[Amsoil_Jim]

I also can't get Windows 7 VM to install but my problem is a little different,

My setup:
Supermicro: CSE-846E16-R1200B
Motherboard: X9DRI-LN4F+
CPU: Intel Xeon E5 2690v1 2.9Ghz x2
Memory: 192GB DDR3 SDRAM ECC (24x8GB)
Disks: 6 x WD Red 2TB Raidz1 & 1 x 128GB SSD stripe

Attempted to install VM on the SSD

 

[Peter Cheong]

I get an error trying to start windows 7 vm install on freenas 11
Error: windows boot manager
windows failed to start..
\EFI\Microsoft\Boot\BCD

I had the same issue before, later on, i've change to another Win7p iso. However, i get another problem which is same like "Amsoil_Jim".
Is there anyone have solved this problem? please advice. Thanks.

 

[Peter Cheong]

Hi, please follow link to solve the problem.

https://forums.freenas.org/index.ph...tall-in-freenas-v-11.55426/page-2#post-483873

Quoted:
Solution is to press shift+f10 so you'll get cmd promt and run msoobe.exe manually and the installation proceeds (found from some Dell article):

Windows 7:

1. At the error screen, press Shift+F10 to open a command prompt.
2. Type cd \ and press Enter.
3. Type cd c:\windows\system32\oobe and press Enter.
4. Type msoobe and press Enter. The installation process should now automatically continue.
5. Remove the installation media and the system should finish the installation and boot into Windows.