[gentoo-user] Re: [OT] gentoo vmware guest on winXP

2008-12-08 Thread Harry Putnam
Harry Putnam [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I've posted two horribly long configs here: http://www.jtan.com/~/reader/massive/ Sorry.. I screwed up the url. It should be: http://www.jtan.com/~reader/massive/ (no leading diag line before `reader') The page lists both the working

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] gentoo vmware guest on winXP

2008-12-08 Thread Mark Knecht
On Mon, Dec 8, 2008 at 11:59 AM, Harry Putnam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Harry Putnam [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I've posted two horribly long configs here: http://www.jtan.com/~/reader/massive/ Sorry.. I screwed up the url. It should be: http://www.jtan.com/~reader/massive/ (no

[gentoo-user] Re: [OT] gentoo vmware guest on winXP

2008-12-08 Thread Harry Putnam
Mark Knecht [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I will be no real help but I run the rt-sources kernel from the pro-audio overlay. (Not vmware - just a normal Gentoo machine) I have run a 2.6.24-rt version for a long time and it runs great. I recently tried the 2.6.27-rt version and I had to give up on

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] gentoo vmware guest on winXP

2008-12-08 Thread Mark Knecht
On Mon, Dec 8, 2008 at 12:16 PM, Harry Putnam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mark Knecht [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I will be no real help but I run the rt-sources kernel from the pro-audio overlay. (Not vmware - just a normal Gentoo machine) I have run a 2.6.24-rt version for a long time and it

[gentoo-user] Re: [OT] gentoo vmware guest on winXP

2008-12-08 Thread Harry Putnam
John J. Foster [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Mon, Dec 08, 2008 at 12:56:39PM -0600, Harry Putnam wrote: I've been monkeying around with a vmware appliance of gentoo.2008.0 from July. Downloaded from bagvapp.com. It fired right up inside vmware running on winXP with no problems. But now

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT] gentoo vmware guest on winXP

2008-12-08 Thread John J. Foster
On Mon, Dec 08, 2008 at 08:56:06PM -0600, Harry Putnam wrote: John J. Foster [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Mon, Dec 08, 2008 at 12:56:39PM -0600, Harry Putnam wrote: However my attempts consistently break out with the message: /dev/sda3 is an invalid device Try appending noapic

[gentoo-user] Re: [OT] gentoo vmware guest on winXP

2008-12-08 Thread Harry Putnam
John J. Foster [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Yeah, running 2.6.23-gentoo-r9 in vmplayer on XP. I was getting the same error till I read somewhere about trying the noapic option. Fired right up. Here's my grub.conf entry for the kernel in case it helps. title Gentoo Linux 2.6.23-r9 root (hd0,0)