Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2001 10:08:40 -0700 From: "Brian O'Shea" <boshea@ricochet.net> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Making an existing VMware virtual disk "dangerously dedicated" Message-ID: <20010712100840.G401@shaolin.hq.netapp.com>
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Hello,
I have installed FreeBSD 4.2-RELEASE in a VMware virtual machine (more
background information[1] at the end of this message) and I've found
that I can not boot the system without first booting from CD and then
loading the kernel from the virtual disk. If I try to boot from the
virtual disk, it hangs after printing:
F1 FreeBSD
Default: F1
(Yes, I tried pressing F1)
At this point, the only option is to reset the system, boot from CD,
load the kernel from the virtual disk, and boot:
BTX loader 1.00 BTX version is 1.01
Console: internal video/keyboard
BIOS drive A: is disk0
BIOS drive B: is disk1
BIOS drive C: is disk2
BIOS 636kB/130048kB available memory
FreeBSD/i386 bootstrap loader, Revision 0.8
(jkh@bento.FreeBSD.org, Mon Nov 20 11:41:23 GMT 2000)
-
Hit [Enter] to boot immediately, or any other key for command prompt.
Booting [kernel] in 9 seconds...
Type '?' for a list of commands, 'help' for more detailed help.
ok load disk2s1a:/kernel
ok boot
So, I would like to try skipping this stage and making the virtual disk
fully dedicated (i.e. no boot manager). I looked this up in the
handbook and it gave some instructions, which I tried. It didn't seem
to work:
(from <http://www.freebsd.org/tutorials/formatting-media/x64.html>)
# dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/ad2 count=2
# disklabel /dev/ad2 | disklabel -B -R -r ad2 /dev/stdin
Note: I wouldn't be doing the above if I didn't have a backup from which
I knew I could restore my system.
The disklabel(8) man page was also helpful, however I couldn't figure
out how to use disklabel to make an existing disk fully dedicated.
If there is no way to do this, I will re-install the system. This is a
good option, although it is difficult to get it to work because it
usually panics while probing devices.
Any help is much appreciated.
Regards,
-brian
1. Background:
Intel Pentium III 700MHz
VMware GSX Server 1.0.1 Build 999 running on Linux kernel 2.2.14-5.0
FreeBSD 4.2-RELEASE installed in a virtual machine
Disk type is VMware virtual disk (i.e. not a physical partition)
--
Brian O'Shea
<boshea@ricochet.net>
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