Slackware 12 in VMware Workstation 6 Issues

ChaoticEuphoria · 09-20-2007, 09:59 AM

Greetings.

I have been a long time reader of the forum but this is my first posting.

I have been quad booting for quite some time and after a while it gets annoying. So I was trying to install Slackware 12 in VMware Workstation 6. The install was successful as was the installation of VMware Tools.

I ran in to problems, however, when I tried to compile my own custom kernel. I have done this many, many time in the past with success. The only difference was this is a VM and before it was my actual laptop.

I looked over all the loaded modules, which ones were being used, as well as what pci hardware was detected. Based off that I went through and gave my best shot for the kernel.

So the first error upon rebooting was

Quote:

"The CPU has been disabled by the guest operating system. You will need to power off or reset the virtual machine at this point."

Through searching I found that this was caused by SpeedStepping in my guest OS. Disabling that fixed the issue.

Now the other issue that I keep receiving, which I can't fix through about 8 different tries with the kernel is:

Quote:

... Please append a correct "root=" boot option
> Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block (8,2)

I found a good deal of threads on this as well, although they are all related to reiserfs support not being in the kernel or compiled as a module. I use ext3 across the boards and have that and ext2 support built into the kernel.

I also made sure scsi/sata support was included as well. I verified my /etc/fstab and lilo conf lists my devices as "sd*" rather than "hd*" since I am using scsi/sata. I'm lost.

Has anyone successfully installed Slack in VMware and upgraded their kernel as well? Perhaps I am missing some hardware drivers in the kernel that are important ...

My host OS is Windows XP and my kernel version is 2.6.22

Any help is appreciated.

Thanks
ChaoticEuphoria

ghostdancer · 09-20-2007, 10:28 AM

What type of Linux you choose? For me I always choose "Other Linux" (Since no option for "Slackware"). I make sure the disk controller is BusLogic BT-946C (a scsi controller).

Code:

$> lspci
00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation 440BX/ZX/DX - 82443BX/ZX/DX Host bridge (rev 01)
00:01.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 440BX/ZX/DX - 82443BX/ZX/DX AGP bridge (rev 01)
00:07.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 ISA (rev 08)
00:07.1 IDE interface: Intel Corporation 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 IDE (rev 01)
00:07.2 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 USB
00:07.3 Bridge: Intel Corporation 82371AB/EB/MB PIIX4 ACPI (rev 08)
00:0f.0 VGA compatible controller: VMware Inc [VMware SVGA II] PCI Display Adapter
00:10.0 SCSI storage controller: BusLogic BT-946C (BA80C30) [MultiMaster 10] (rev 01)
00:11.0 Ethernet controller: Advanced Micro Devices [AMD] 79c970 [PCnet32 LANCE] (rev 10)

Did you keep your previous kernel? If you had, you should boot it back and the devices again.

ChaoticEuphoria · 09-20-2007, 10:33 AM

I did choose other, and then the kernel 2.6 option. And yes I did keep my old kernel which is how I keep booting to retry the kernel complilation.

I used LSI Logic for the scsi controller. Is there a difference between the two. I did include both Bus and LSI logic support in the kernel under the scsi options.

Your output is exactly what my lspci shows except I am using the Intel 100/1000 NIC (e1000)

ghostdancer · 09-20-2007, 10:46 AM

If that is the case, then you should not be using LSI Logic for SCSI controller. Since we are using the same PCI list, you can take my .config file a try:

http://rapidshare.com/files/57026880/kernel.config -> FYI, this is for kernel 2.6.22.6

ChaoticEuphoria · 09-21-2007, 09:40 AM

Thanks.

I'm going to recreate my VM using Bus Logic or just normal IDE and see if that fixes it.