Re: Using VMWare 2.0.2

  • From: Robert Freeman <robertgfreeman@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: "Blanchard, William" <wblanchard@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, dave <david.best@xxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Tue, 24 Nov 2009 12:57:01 -0800 (PST)

Maybe I de-selected it on the install.... I just meant I wasn't doing anything 
special on the setup with the bootloader, so maybe I wasn't making myself 
clear. I've done this before a number of times and never had this problem. I'll 
try it again tonight and make sure I'm not stupidly de-selecting it. I've done 
stupider things.

RF


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________________________________
From: "Blanchard, William" <wblanchard@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: robertgfreeman@xxxxxxxxx; dave <david.best@xxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Alessandro Vercelli <alever@xxxxxxxxx>; oracle-l <oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tue, November 24, 2009 1:13:24 PM
Subject: RE: Using VMWare 2.0.2

 
Robert,
 
You need to have some type of bootloader installed (grub, lilo 
[is that even used anymore], etc).  Try reinstalling with grub on /boot and 
see if that does the trick.
 
 
WGB


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Sent: Tuesday, November 24, 2009 11:18 AM
To: dave
Cc: Alessandro Vercelli; oracle-l
Subject: Re: Using 
VMWare 2.0.2


When 
installing I did not enable GRUB, so I'm thinking that would not be an 
issue.
I'm going to install with VMWare 1 tonight and see if that fixes the 
problem.

RF


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________________________________
 From: dave 
<david.best@xxxxxxxxx>
To: robertgfreeman@xxxxxxxxx
Cc: Alessandro Vercelli 
<alever@xxxxxxxxx>; oracle-l <oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tue, November 24, 2009 10:07:40 
AM
Subject: Re: Using VMWare 
2.0.2

I've had issues with grub not picking up the right boot 
partition..
if you can boot with your the install media and see it, then 
check
your /boot/grub/grub.conf file and verify its looking at the 
partition
you specified to be the boot partition when you did the 
install.

Not sure how familiar with grub but here is a clip.  You 
want to be
looking at the root(hd0,0) line.  The below says to boot from 
the
first partition of the first drive.

title Red Hat Enterprise Linux 
AS (2.6.9-78.0.1.ELhugemem)
        root 
(hd0,0)
        kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.9-78.0.1.ELhugemem ro 
root=LABEL=/1 rhgb quiet
        initrd 
/initrd-2.6.9-78.0.1.ELhugemem.img


On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 11:47 AM, 
Robert Freeman
<robertgfreeman@xxxxxxxxx> 
wrote:
> This is RH 5. I'm pretty sure this is not a RH boot issue but 
rather a VMWare issue.
> I'll try the boot with the media/rescue option 
and see what happens tonight.
>

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