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I am trying to load RHEL 5.2 into VMWare 6.5 running on (dare i say it) XP SP2
As soon as it boots from DVD I get "NTLDR is Missing".
Does anyone know if this a RHEL related problem, a VMWare problem, or an XP problem? I just need pointed in right direction.
Thanks
I am trying to load RHEL 5.2 into VMWare 6.5 running on (dare i say it) XP SP2
As soon as it boots from DVD I get "NTLDR is Missing".
Does anyone know if this a RHEL related problem, a VMWare problem, or an XP problem? I just need pointed in right direction.
Thanks
I am trying to load RHEL 5.2 into VMWare 6.5 running on (dare i say it) XP SP2
As soon as it boots from DVD I get "NTLDR is Missing".
Does anyone know if this a RHEL related problem, a VMWare problem, or an XP problem? I just need pointed in right direction.
Thanks
I'll make a bold assumption: You're getting the NTLDR Missing message from VMWare?
Sound like you may have set the VM up as though it were for windows. Make a new machine specifying that it is RHEL5 and install it from a clean iso.
I am trying to load RHEL 5.2 into VMWare 6.5 running on (dare i say it) XP SP2
As soon as it boots from DVD I get "NTLDR is Missing".
That message means the first stage of the Windows boot code is running and can't find the second stage of the Windows boot code.
Why you are running the first stage of the Windows boot code when you think you are running the boot code from a Linux DVD inside VMWare, is a question whose answer I can't even begin to guess.
If you provide a few more details, maybe someone here knows VMWare well enough to figure out how that happened.
Thanks guys.
It was down to the way I was trying to load it.
I had the RHEL iso on a USB stick and was pointing the vmare install path to it.
I resolved it by creating a DVD from the iso and booting vmware from the physical media.
All went OK.
Thanks again.
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