Hi, I'm not sure but maby you don't have the correct modules to manage the disk emulated by VMware in the initrd. I have a FC4 installed on a vmware machine with SCSI disk and I need that initrd loads this modules to wark fine: scsi_mod, sd_mod, mptbase, mptscsih, mptspi. Without this modules the kernel can't manage the disk and it can't create the root device to do the switchroot. I hope it can help you. Good Luck!! Juanjo El vie, 31-03-2006 a las 13:50 +0800, Bo Yang escribió: > > This is actually a VMware question more than a Linux question. They > > have a user forum: have you tried posting about your problem there? I > > have a little bit of experience with VMware, but you don't provide > > enough information for me to take a stab at what the problem might > > be. First, is this a virtual disk or are you trying to use an actual > > scsi hardware disk for your Gentoo install? I have no expereince with > > using a real disk or partition for the guest OS, only with virtual disks. > It is a scsi virtual disk , and VM display it as '' Hard Disk 1: > (SCSI 0:0)" > > So I might not be able to help with that anyway. If it's a virtual > > partition I can't understand why you would specify it as /dev/sda3. > > I've always put OS's on the first partition of the virtual disk. > > VMware presents these virtual disks to the host OS as scsi disks, so > > my experience has always been with systems installed to /dev/sda1. > > Did you partition the (virtual?) disk and put /home and swap or > > something on the other 2 partitions? Anyway, I'm not even sure I can > > help. Probably best to try the VMware forums. > And I have partition the disk for 4 part . > /dev/sda1 /boot reiserfs > /dev/sda2 swap swap > /dev/sda3 / reiserfs > /dev/sda4 /usr reiserfs > > So I tell the lilo to mount the root file system in the partition > /dev/sda3 , is it wrong ? > > Thank you for your reply ! > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in > the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs
