VMWARE .....

[vu pham]

Lonni J Friedman wrote:
> 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.
> 
> 

Thanks, Lonni. That's the problem. I also changed the type to NTFS and 
it still hangs. So I change to use the disk file instead of the raw 
partition, and it boots just fine.

Vu