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Date:      Tue, 05 Jun 2001 13:49:10 -0400
From:      "Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH" <allbery@ece.cmu.edu>
To:        freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: cooked/raw ad0
Message-ID:  <56850000.991763350@vpn16.ece.cmu.edu>
In-Reply-To: <20010605133813.F14469@pir.net>
References:  <E157Kew-0000wd-00@roam.psg.com> <20010605133813.F14469@pir.net>

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On Tuesday, June 05, 2001 13:38:13 -0400, Peter Radcliffe <pir@pir.net> 
wrote:
+-----
| > which seems to be causing havoc with vmware, which wants a raw disk.
|
| vmware is working fine for me. Did you remove and reinstall the vmware
| port when you upgraded the machine ?
|
| I have a plain disk set to /dev/hda;
+--->8

Sounds to me like he's trying to use a VMware "raw disk", which is 
documented to not work (it expects Linux major numbers).

-- 
brandon s. allbery     [os/2][linux][solaris][japh]   allbery@kf8nh.apk.net
system administrator        [WAY too many hats]         allbery@ece.cmu.edu
electrical and computer engineering                                   KF8NH
carnegie mellon university     ["better check the oblivious first" -ke6sls]


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