Allow me to answer -
LILO installs the graphic menu by default, which does not work on VMWare.
There's a simple way around it - generate a boot diskette image and boot
from that, then edit lilo.conf to use boot-menu.b instead of boot-graphic.b.
This is a problem with VMWare's VESA graphics support. Aurora also will not
work under VMWare for the same reason.
Second thing you'll hit is that VMWare doesn't truly support pcnet32 as a
32bit card. The newer kernels distribute pcnet32 for the real thing, and it
breaks VMWare causing a Not Supported popup and VMWare crash. To get around
this use an older pcnet32 driver or comment out the 32 bit check in
drivers/net/pcnet32.c (there's actually a patch in 2.4.3-ac3 that fixes
this, I think.)
Hope this helps...
----- Original Message -----
From: "Esko" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, April 05, 2001 3:04 PM
Subject: [Cooker] Beta 3 and VMWare
> I tried installing Beta 3 under VMWare today. On "reboot" of virtual
machine
> all I saw was LILO:
>
> 2.17
>
> Is there any way to make sure Mandrake 8 can be used under VMWare. (We're
a
> Windows shop at work and I really want my Linux. BTW: 7.2 works fine.)
>
> Esko
>
> --
> They have to pay me to use Windows... On MY TIME I use Linux!
>
