VMWARE .....

[Lonni J Friedman]

On Jan 18, 2008 10:52 AM, vu pham <vu at sivell.com> wrote:
> Lonni J Friedman wrote:
> > On Jan 18, 2008 10:16 AM, vu pham <vu at sivell.com> wrote:
> >> Lonni J Friedman wrote:
> >> [..]
> >>> I've been running vmware workstation (6.0.0-45731) on Fedora8 for a
> >>> while, and haven't had a single problem.  Which OS are you trying to
> >>> boot inside of vmware?
> >>>
> >> Windows XP Professional. What I do not understand is that it just hangs
> >> there with a black screen. No complaints about CD or hardware at all.
> >
> > You're trying to install XP, or its already installed and you're
> > trying to boot it?  I have a WinXP vmware image that I boot on a few
> > rare occasions, and did so a few weeks ago under Fedora8 without any
> > issues.
> >
>
> I am trying to install a new one from CD.

I've seen that crapage before.  That's a WinXP installer bug.
Whenever the installer encounters a disk that has a partition table
with 'unknown' partition types, it hangs at a dark screen.  unknown in
this case is linux partitions, or even no partition table at all.  I'm
not sure how this could happen with vmware though.


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