An addition to what I wrote... I have tried installing both to the MBR
and to root, but the outcome was the same? Should I look into the
scsi[1,2].s kernel?
Thanks,
Ray
Ray Hauge wrote:
> I did use scsi.s. The problem could be when I installed LILO. I've
> been installing it to root instead of MBR. Is that correct? I haven't
> installed LILO on a scsi system before, so is there a special command I
> have to pass to LILO at that screen?
>
> Thanks,
> Ray
>
> Nathan England wrote:
>
>> I've done it many times, and initially I would assume possibly because
>> you installed or booted using a bare.i kernel and default VMWare uses
>> a scsi drive, so slack isn't seeing it? Or lilo didn't install
>> correctly because it was a scsi drive?
>>
>> Did you explicity use a ide drive for the install, or a scsi.s kernel?
>>
>> Nathan
>>
>>
>> On Tuesday 07 September 2004 06:54 pm, Dennis Kibbe wrote:
>>
>>
>>> 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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