From owner-freebsd-emulation Mon Dec 13 18:59:15 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org Received: from culverk.student.umd.edu (culverk.student.umd.edu [129.2.196.87]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 51263150DB for ; Mon, 13 Dec 1999 18:59:09 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from culverk@culverk.student.umd.edu) Received: from localhost (culverk@localhost) by culverk.student.umd.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id VAA00877; Mon, 13 Dec 1999 21:58:58 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from culverk@culverk.student.umd.edu) Date: Mon, 13 Dec 1999 21:58:58 -0500 (EST) From: Kenneth Culver To: "Vladimir N. Silyaev" Cc: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org Subject: Re: raw disks and vmware In-Reply-To: <19991213204316.A489@jupiter.delta.ny.us> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > >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. That worked, that is what I was trying to say before when I told you it wouldn't work :-) Thanks though. Ken To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-emulation" in the body of the message