vmware Slack (Host)/WinXP - dual-boot issues
I currently have my laptop setup as follows:
hda1 - NTFS (windows XP pro) hda2 - EXT3 (Slackware 9.1 w/ 2.4.24 kernel) hda3 - swap Bootloader - Lilo installed on MBR I want to be able to run vmware on XP or Linux and boot the other OS from within the virtual machine. For both OSs, I setup vmware to boot the whole disk (hda) instead of individual partitions (this brings up lilo within the VM). Currently I am able to boot Linux as a guest OS from the XP Host without a hitch, but when I try to boot XP as a gust OS from the Linux Host it begins to boot (i.e. the windows logo appears), then promptly bluescreens and the VM restarts. I noticed a few interesting things: 1.) If I select the individual NTFS partition where my XP build is located as the virtual disk (i.e. I choose only that partition and not the whole disk or other partitions) I get a strange error when the VM starts: "9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 9 " 2.) I've changed my lilo configuration since I setup my XP host vmware, and when I start my virtual machine on my XP host I get my old lilo menu. Now I know this is possible b/c I've done something similar to this - I've booted a native windows 2000 build within a Linux VM from a physical HDD that I had in my hot-swap bay. I'm guessing that it's a hardware autodetect issue with XP but I'm not sure. Please help!! :Pengy: |
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