Heya, > -----Original Message----- > From: Patrick J. LoPresti [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Can you set the disk size to exactly 9253440 sectors (4737761280 > bytes)? > > Put another way, what units does VMware let you use to specify the > disk size, and what did you specify there to get a sector count of > 0x900000?
Well, Vmware lets you only specify the size in GB (and I'm assuming it uses units of 1024). I didn't complain when I put in 4.412384033203125 but it appeared to round this to 4.4GB ;-) It did however stop complaining about the C/H/S! Unfortunately, dosemu still hangs at the start: > > Nope, still the same - hangs on the dosemu screen just after > > "DPMI-Server Version 0.9 Installed" > > That is almost certainly either a dosemu bug, a Linux bug, or a VMware > bug... I'll turn my back, someone do numbers! ;-) > > Other "interesting" thing that _sometimes_ happens when > running with any > > taste of SCSI in Vmware... > > For no apparent reason while booting I get a kernel panic > when its enabling > > IO-APIC IRQs. > > And that is either a bug in Linux or in VMware. We are using a very > stock kernel. > > > Various errors that look like kernel issues. Tries this with the > > latest tftp linuxboot and it seems to be ok though. > > When you say "latest tftp linuxboot", do you mean our current testing > release (4.2-rc2)? The test release has Linux 2.6.6, which may have > fixed some things. > Sorry for being slightly wandering and vague there. I'm now using unattended 4.2-rc2. Since my previous email, I have experienced that same kernel panic with the 2.6.6 kernel, however the frequency of occurances does appear to be down - but maybe I've free'd up memory on my pc/its not working as hard etc etc. :-\ I think most of the problems are probably down to not-that-great-support for 2.6.x kernels under vmware. Regards, Mark. -- This e-mail message may contain confidential or privileged information. Recipients are requested to preserve this confidentiality and to advise the sender immediately of any error in transmission. Any views/opinions expressed in this email are that of the author and may not reflect the views of Salamis Group - www.salamisgroup.com ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by Sleepycat Software Learn developer strategies Cisco, Motorola, Ericsson & Lucent use to deliver higher performing products faster, at low TCO. http://www.sleepycat.com/telcomwpreg.php?From=osdnemail3 _______________________________________________ unattended-info mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/unattended-info
