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 Robert G. Freeman Oracle ACE Ask me about on-site Oracle Training! RMAN, DBA, Tuning, you name it! Author: Oracle Database 11g RMAN Backup and Recovery (Oracle Press) - ON IT'S WAY SOON! OCP: Oracle Database 11g Administrator Certified Professional Study Guide (Sybex) Oracle Database 11g New Features (Oracle Press) Oracle Database 10g New Features (Oracle Press) Other various titles Blog: http://robertgfreeman.blogspot.com ________________________________ 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 ________________________________ From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Robert Freeman 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 Robert G. Freeman Oracle ACE Ask me about on-site Oracle Training! RMAN, DBA, Tuning, you name it! Author: Oracle Database 11g RMAN Backup and Recovery (Oracle Press) - ON IT'S WAY SOON! OCP: Oracle Database 11g Administrator Certified Professional Study Guide (Sybex) Oracle Database 11g New Features (Oracle Press) Oracle Database 10g New Features (Oracle Press) Other various titles Blog: http://robertgfreeman.blogspot.com ________________________________ 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. >