I've never tried installing slack with a scsi drive in vmware. So I'm afraid I
won't be too much help. Try booting off the cd using:
scsi.s root=/dev/sda(1,2,3?) noinitrd ro
That should get you back into it, then you can run lilo again and debug it.
nathan
On Thursday 09 September 2004 02:38 am, Ray Hauge wrote:
> 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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