From owner-freebsd-emulation Wed May 24 22:19: 3 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org Received: from tinker.exit.com (exit-gw.power.net [207.151.46.196]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 71CCF37BDEF for ; Wed, 24 May 2000 22:18:58 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from frank@exit.com) Received: from realtime.exit.com (realtime.exit.com [206.223.0.5]) by tinker.exit.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id WAA56843; Wed, 24 May 2000 22:18:56 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from frank@exit.com) Received: (from frank@localhost) by realtime.exit.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id WAA10588; Wed, 24 May 2000 22:18:55 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from frank) From: Frank Mayhar Message-Id: <200005250518.WAA10588@realtime.exit.com> Subject: Re: VMware 2.0 problems. In-Reply-To: <392CB310.A0A1AEAF@quack.kfu.com> from Nick Sayer at "May 24, 2000 09:58:56 pm" To: Nick Sayer Date: Wed, 24 May 2000 22:18:55 -0700 (PDT) Cc: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org Reply-To: frank@exit.com Organization: Exit Consulting X-Copyright0: Copyright 2000 Frank Mayhar. All Rights Reserved. X-Copyright1: Permission granted for electronic reproduction as Usenet News or email only. X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL68 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Nick Sayer wrote: > This should be > > ACCESS "/dev/da0s1" 63 6297417 Oops, fixed. Still no joy. > You may be screwed if the SCSI geometry that shows up in the guest > is not the same as the numbers you quote in the .hd file. If they're > not the same, Winblows type OSes for sure won't boot. > > Also, be sure that the disk.mbr file actually has the right contents. > You can make it with > > dd if=/dev/da0 bs=1b count=63 of=disk.mbr Did that. > The actual algorithm for doing this is to use FreeBSD's fdisk command to > find > out which block ranges the different raw slice devices occupy. You then > fill the rest of the space either with a local "mbr" file or with > /dev/null. > The idea is that you use the raw slice devices along with your own local > copy of the > mbr (usually the FreeBSD bootloader) to build the "plain disk" view. > Partitions that > you don't want to see can be substituted with /dev/null. I basically understand all this and have, as far as I can tell, set things up properly. The best I get is the BUG F(171):252 bugNr=3419 crash and coredump. This is incredibly frustrating; I have no idea what I'm doing wrong. For the record, the system is a P2B-DS, dual PII 400, 512MB, SCSI everything (no IDE or ATA). -- Frank Mayhar frank@exit.com http://www.exit.com/ Exit Consulting http://store.exit.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-emulation" in the body of the message