Date: Mon, 13 Dec 1999 20:43:16 -0500 From: "Vladimir N. Silyaev" <vsilyaev@mindspring.com> To: Kenneth Culver <culverk@culverk.student.umd.edu> Cc: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org Subject: Re: raw disks and vmware Message-ID: <19991213204316.A489@jupiter.delta.ny.us>
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>Foo some reason, I still cannot get vmware to boot a raw device. It still >says that the disk is an unknown type. I'm using the new ATA drivers, and >I'm using /dev/wd0 as the device name. Do something like: ls -al /dev/wd0, and take a look to the result, if you are see a something like: crw-r----- 1 root operator 3, 0 Nov 26 20:20 /dev/wd0 ^ Then it's mean, that your problem very simple. Probably vmware want the block device, not a character. AFAIK, after 26 Nov all the devices are a character. So try to do something like: mknod /compat/linux/dev/hda b 0 0x00010002 (This is not tested so, please, report any result - successful or not.) And use /dev/hda, in vmware. Remember, vmware don't save a changes in the device field, so you are need to manually edit the file with raw disk description, or create new one. -- Vladimir Silyaev To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-emulation" in the body of the message
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