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From: "Russ Cox" <rsc@swtch.com>
To: "Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs" <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] Noob intall issues
Date: Tue, 11 Dec 2007 15:37:10 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <ee9e417a0712111237u20439419pfc3d34df3fd908c8@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20071210185340.GD26006@csail.mit.edu>

> 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.

This turned out to be yet another incompatibility with the
VMware IDE device's idea of a "disconnected CD-ROM drive".
Deleting the CD-ROM drive from the VMware config made it boot.

Russ


  parent reply	other threads:[~2007-12-11 20:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-12-10 18:53 Jonathan D. Proulx
2007-12-10 19:23 ` Philipp
2007-12-11 20:37 ` Russ Cox [this message]
2007-12-12 10:13 ` [9fans] " Randall Bohn
2007-12-12 10:14 ` Bob

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