-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday, 2009-02-18 at 15:36 -0600, Jeffrey L. Taylor wrote:
I'm trying to avoid booting into Windows XP for several reasons, but need to run TurboTax and Internet Explorer. TurboTax will not run in Wine/Crossover Office. So far I've tried VMware Server 2, doesn't support setup of raw disks (i.e. actual partitions, not virtual disks, a file on the host filesystem), though may be able to run legacy setups. And VMware Server 1.0.8 sets up okay but won't boot. Somewhere I ran across a note that it cannot boot from SCSI raw disks, only IDE ones. And since some kernel update, even ATA disks appear to be SCSI disks (the /dev/hdX => /dev/sdX change). Booting the virtual machine shows the BIOS screen, then GRUB, then nothing: no activity, no prompt, no echoing the keyboard. Why a Windows partition should display part of the GRUB console is beyond me.
I think it tries to boot the disk, not the partition. And the disk is probably set to boot your computer via grub (which is, normally, already booted as the host system). I read something about this in the vmware documentation, you can not tell it to boot the virtual machine from the partition only. - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkmcuCUACgkQtTMYHG2NR9WNogCfZf/uCha4FzQIlrn9kRFJp7bD lnsAn2C0nLGvr0wis20c+BMzLoGLGhIE =rgf5 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org