Re: Slackware on VMWare

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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