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jtanner
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 Posted: Wed Jun 05, 2002 11:27 pm Post subject: VMWare issue w/ grub and raw partitions. |
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I'm trying to get vmware to boot a raw partition. The host os is gentoo, the guest os is Win2K. Gentoo is installed on hdb, Win2K on hda. grub is the bootloader. Both OS's boot fine natively.
When I boot vmware using hda as a raw disk, it takes me to the grub menu. When I select Win2K on this menu, I get the following:
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GRUB Loading stage1.5.
GRUB loading, please wait...
Error 21
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Relevant permissions:
/dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/* is 660 root:disk (this is Win2k)
/dev/ide/host0/bus0/target1/lun0/disc and part1 are 660 root:disk (this is /boot on my gentoo system)
I'm a member of the disk group.
I can boot a virtual disk with win2k just fine.
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jtanner
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| Posted: Wed Jun 05, 2002 11:36 pm Post subject: |
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OK, self: RTFM.
Turns out grub was trying to access /dev/hdb for config info, and I didn't configure vmware to provide /dev/hdb.
Now I'm getting a win2k stop: INACCESSIBLE_BOOT_DEVICE. Is this a permissions problem?
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lx
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| Posted: Wed Jun 05, 2002 11:38 pm Post subject: |
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Don't add a message, while I'm typing, now it's all out of context, 
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Think the problem has got something to do with the second stage being on a different disk. Maybe vmware does still lies a layer between the real hardware and maybe this causes the error, although its threating the disks as raw it will threat them both seperatly using its emulated ide/scsi controller, can't you swap the disk in vmware and install another grub boot partition on hdb maybe if you install it under vmware the stage1 will point to the correct place.
Well its lated, I'm just typing, not thinking, Cya lX.
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lx
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| Posted: Wed Jun 05, 2002 11:40 pm Post subject: |
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| jtanner wrote: |
Now I'm getting a win2k stop: INACCESSIBLE_BOOT_DEVICE. Is this a permissions problem?
Jim |
So grub now works, and you choose the boot windows 2K?
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jtanner
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| Posted: Thu Jun 06, 2002 3:10 am Post subject: |
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| lx wrote: | | So grub now works, and you choose the boot windows 2K? |
Yup. About halfway through the Win2K splash screen, I get the aforementioned stop.
It has been suggested that Win2K is trying to initialize a device that VMWare is not providing, but I can't think of what that would be--I left the default of cd & floppy hooked up...
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| Posted: Thu Jun 06, 2002 7:39 am Post subject: |
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| jtanner wrote: |
It has been suggested that Win2K is trying to initialize a device that VMWare is not providing, but I can't think of what that would be--I left the default of cd & floppy hooked up...
Jim |
Well win2k is initialising many drivers, just try a simple win2k install and just get the harddrive out and put it in a different computer changes are it won't work or win2k needs to reinstall a lot of drivers, most problematic are the ones driving your motherboard (hostbridge etc.....)
But I can't help you here, but do you know of people who succeeded booting win2k from a raw partition, not installed using vmware?
Cya lX.
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