Mepis 6.0 panics when installed in vmware
Hi,
I have vmware 5.5 and mepis 6.0 from CD (included into Chip magazine)
I started and installed it without problems (use entire disk)
However it fails to boot from installed disk with the following message;
Unable to mount root fs on unknown block (0,0)
I tried to install on ext2, also use initrd, use SCSI or IDE disk but useless.
Would be great if I got it finally installed. It includes everything I need.
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mepis vmware
if you do google search 'vmware appliance mepis' it will take you to a downloadable pre-built mepis which works fine!
Yes, you can...
I have run that prebuilt Mepis 6.0 under VMware Server in Mepis 6.0. No problems - I was just curious and it worked.
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Regards, Ko
Ko Bros
where is the problem ?
Thank you for your comment! I'm from Russia and have very slow GPRS connection only. Download another distro is no-no. Could you tell me where is the problem and I will fix it myself (using google and /dev/hands
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Mepis bootfailure?
Hi,
I believe I got it wrong in my first reply: your problem seems to be with booting into a regularly installed Mepis, not with VMWare.......!
1. Where did you install grub (into the MBR of the boot-HD or into the Mepis root-partition?). Where is Mepis installed? Provide some hardware details. Do you have more distributions installed? Where?
2. Boot the Mepis-LiveCD and then mount the partition where Mepis is installed on your harddisk. On that partition go to /boot/grub/menu.list and copy the contents of the file menu.list here.
Your answers to 1 + 2 should provide some insight into 'where it went wrong'....
Regards, Ko
Ko Bros
Installation Into VMware
Andrey, if you are trying to load Mepis 6.0 into a guest machine in vmware, then make sure that you make the virtual hard drive big enough. I normally set up an 8 or 10 GB virtual hard drive. Also, make the hard drive an IDE drive, not SCSI. That means that you will have to use the vmware tools to make a new hard drive and select the option to make it IDE since the default is to create a SCSI drive. If your machine has enough RAM, I like to bump the RAM of the virtual machine up during initial installation to 256 MB or 512 MB. You can always remove it later. After all, it's a virtual machine
Can you give us some statistics on your host machine?
Jon
solved
Thanks to everyone to the problem.
It is solved with changing disk to IDE instead SCSI!
Yup!
Yes Andrey, that's the solution. Glad you got it to work.
That's the one minor gripe that I have with the current VMware Workstation. It is nice that you have the option to create SCSI hard drives, but it would be nice if it asked you and/or have a tool to switch the type of drive that is created.
BTW, Mepis WILL WORK with other drives being SCSI. It's just the root drive that must not be
Jon