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Date: Wed, 12 Dec 2007 10:13:45 +0000
From: Randall Bohn <rsbohn@gmail.com>
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Subject: [9fans] Re: Noob intall issues
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> Second choice is VMware, I'm using 5.5.2 build-29772 under Linux.
> After finding the "echo hwaccel off > /dev/vgactl" I got the installer
> to run, and things seemed to go well, but on reboot it hangs at "init:
> starting /bin/rc",  that one's been there for about an hour but still
> no prompt.
>

I've seen this behavior with IDE disks under VMWare. Try installing to
SCSI disks instead.