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Re: VMWare and LILO configuration



Hi!
It apears that it is better to use files on ext2 (or other linux fs) as
disks for the guest os, and not raw devices.
Dani

On Sun, 7 Jan 2001, Subba Rao wrote:

> Hello                                                                           
>                                                                                 
> I have installed VMWare on my Linux (host). There are 2 seprate HDs on this
> system. I have created raw disks to install the guest OSs. Win98 is installed
> as a guest OS on one raw disk (/dev/hda5).
> 
> The problem now is with LILO. I have installed LILO on my /dev/hda MBR. Each
> time I power on the VMWare, it goes to the LILO prompt. So I modified the
> lilo.conf to provide Win98 as an option. At the VMWare LILO prompt I select
> Win98 and then Win98 starts fine.
> 
> In the current LILO configuration, I have:
> 	boot=/dev/hda
>  
> Can anyone recommend a better LILO and/or VMWare configuration? I prefer that
> VMWare not to prompt me for the guest OS. I plan to install other Guest OSs on
> other HD (/dev/hdb). How will the "boot" directive in lilo.conf, direct to the
> other guest OSs on /dev/hdb1 or /dev/hdb2 etc?
> 
> Thank you in advance.                                                           
>                                                                                 
> Subba Rao                                                                       
> subb3@attglobal.net                                                             
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