Re: Booting in Vmware 3.0 problems

[erich]

"Adi Alurkar" <address@hidden> wrote:

> I have the following config:
> 
> Dual boot with Win2kPro and RH 7.2, I used GRUB to configure multiboot.
> I am evaluating vmware 3.0 on both Win2kPro and RH 7.2 to boot into the
> other natively installed OS. Vmware goes thru  BIOS run and MEM test and
> then hangs  all that is displayed on the scren is "GRUB" and then the
> system just freezes. Any suggestions/workarounds that I need to do to
> make it work?

I use GRUB (various versions including the one used in RH 7.2) in
VMWare both 2.0.x and 3.0 with no problems.  I just set up the default
VMWare virtual machine, and went with it.

The only failure I've ever had of GRUB under VMWare was 2.0.x in an
experimental function I expected to fail based on how VMWare emulates
some BIOS functions.  The normal GRUB code doesn't do such things.

My guess is that your GRUB setup is broken in general.

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