On Friday 25 April 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > So, I'm thinking it probably won't do any real good to monkey around > with the kernel either, if the initramfs thing isn't the problem them > it seems likely to be a vista problem.
The kernel is exactly where you should be monkeying. I reckon you have a driver you need compiled in and it's a module because of the make allconfig. It's highly unlikely to be Vista unless Vista prevents VMWare from creating virtual devices. This is unlikely. If it were, Microsoft would already be in front of the anti-trust judge and /. would be going ballistic > However you and others have mentioned having the right drivers for > the harddrive. How can I tell if I have the right drivers? Check the VMWare config for your virtual machine. Somewhere in there is a choice for the disk type VMWare gives you. I forget the details, but it's something well known. Same for the chipset stuff > And are we talking about something in the vmware settings or do you > mean loading the right modules or building certain drivers into the > kernel? It's the same process as building a kernel running on the native machine. Without an initrd to provide drivers via a ram disk at boot-time, you need them compiled into your kernel. It's the usual: disk system type - in your case it will be scsi specific disk/chipset type - this you get from VMWare's config dialog root filesystem type - ext3/reiserfs/whatever you are using -- Alan McKinnon alan dot mckinnon at gmail dot com -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
