From owner-freebsd-emulation Wed May 24 22:41:58 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org Received: from ms.tokyo.jcom.ne.jp (ms.tokyo.jcom.ne.jp [210.234.123.18]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2000037B72F for ; Wed, 24 May 2000 22:41:53 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from knu@idaemons.org) Received: from daemon.local.idaemons.org (203-165-77-40.sugnm1.kt.home.ne.jp [203.165.77.40]) by ms.tokyo.jcom.ne.jp (8.9.3/3.7W 04/27/00) with ESMTP id OAA23561; Thu, 25 May 2000 14:41:16 +0900 (JST) Received: by daemon.local.idaemons.org (8.9.3/3.7W) id OAA06513; Thu, 25 May 2000 14:40:45 +0900 (JST) Date: Thu, 25 May 2000 14:40:44 +0900 Message-ID: <86g0r7gpb7.wl@localhost.local.idaemons.org> From: "Akinori -Aki- MUSHA" To: frank@exit.com Cc: emulation@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: VMware 2.0 problems. In-Reply-To: In your message of "Wed, 24 May 2000 20:35:27 -0700 (PDT)" <200005250335.UAA08816@realtime.exit.com> References: <86hfbngvsm.wl@localhost.local.idaemons.org> <200005250335.UAA08816@realtime.exit.com> User-Agent: Wanderlust/1.1.2 (Raspberry Beret) EMIKO/1.13.12 (Euglena sociabilis) FLIM/1.13.2 (Kasanui) APEL/10.2 MULE XEmacs/21.1 (patch 9) (Canyonlands) (i386--freebsd) Organization: Associated I. Daemons X-PGP-Public-Key: finger knu@FreeBSD.org X-PGP-Fingerprint: 1BEF D9B2 BABD 25D7 659A FD08 89C2 F3BE E981 4E16 MIME-Version: 1.0 (generated by EMIKO 1.13.12 - "Euglena sociabilis") Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org At Wed, 24 May 2000 20:35:27 -0700 (PDT), Frank Mayhar wrote: > My root is on /dev/da0s2a. That's what the RDONLY you elided covered. Specifying a non-root partition by "a" would be improper anyway. > > I think you should specify that slice by just /dev/da0s1, with no > > trailing disklabel. > > I've tried that. _That_ gives me: (snip) Then, how about using a raw slice "/dev/rda0s1" ? > > The message says it all. You got refused to commit write access on > > the device just because you didn't have write permission. > > I'm not naive, I covered that. Got the above crash. I just want to know > if anyone has gotten vmware working in a similar environment and if so, > how. Nick have the knack of it. It was him who wrote "setting up a plain disk as a workaround for the broken raw disks" section of Hints.FreeBSD. -- / /__ __ / ) ) ) ) / Akinori -Aki- MUSHA aka / (_ / ( (__( @ idaemons.org / FreeBSD.org "We're only at home when we're on the run, on the wing, on the fly" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-emulation" in the body of the message