[ale] VMWare and LILO configuration

[Subba Rao]

On  0, Kent Pirkle <kpirkle at ga.prestige.net> wrote:
> I can understand the need to get around the 2GB limit, but I still
> don't understand why LILO would be needed to boot Win98 in the
> VM? Are you talking about the LILO that boots your host OS or
> a LILO inside the VM?
> 
> 
> On Sun, Jan 07, 2001 at 01:39:44PM +0000, Subba Rao wrote:
> > 
> > I want to install the Guest OSs on the raw disks such as /dev/hda5.../dev/hdb4
> > etc. In case I update my Linux to 2.4 at a later date, the guest OS installation
> > and data would not have to be reinstalled. VMWare is not finding the raw disk
> > guest OS installation, until I mention it in lilo.conf. Virtual disks seem to
> > have a limitation of 2 GB per disk. Raw Disks do not have such restrictions.
> >  
> 

The Win98 was installed on a raw disk, which is /dev/hda5. LILO for the OS boots
fine. VMWare finds the VM only if it is defined in the OS LILO.

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