Re: Slackware on VMWare

On Tue, 07 Sep 2004 09:40:03 +0000
Ray Hauge <ray@usscreen.com> wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I've been trying to install Slackware 9.1 on VMWare as a guest on my
> Windows XP machine. I'm using 9.1 because it still uses XFree86, and
> VMWare Tools requires XFree86, not xorg :(
>
> Anyway, I install it just fine, using scsi.s for the kernel when
> installing. It installs just fine, but when I restart the virtual
> machine, I just get a blank screen after the "BIOS" is finished loading
> and it hangs. I've been able to boot up Slax just fine, so it should
> theoretically work. Just seeing if anyone else has gotten Slack to work
> on VMWare before.
>
> Thanks,
> Ray

Just quessing, but could it be that the screen res is such that the prompt is simply off the screen? I've had this happen with laptops. CTRL-L redraws the screen and brings the prompt to the top.

Dennisk
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