Bug 25609 - Installer hangs at /sbin/loader under VMWare
Summary: Installer hangs at /sbin/loader under VMWare
Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Alias: None
Product: Red Hat Linux
Classification: Retired
Component: kernel
Version: 7.1
Hardware: i386
OS: Linux
high
high
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Michael K. Johnson
QA Contact: Brock Organ
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Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2001-02-02 02:13 UTC by Bill Bradford
Modified: 2005-10-31 22:00 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2001-02-08 21:15:52 UTC

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Description Bill Bradford 2001-02-02 02:13:53 UTC 
Running VMWare under Windows 2000, with virtual machine as follows:
64mb RAM, 2G HD, no floppy, CD-ROM assigned to cd-rom drive,
running in a window on the desktop.

Boots off CD fine, boots kernel, gets to /sbin/loader stage,
freezes solid (doesent continue).  I let it run for about
5 minutes (even tho this is a 700Mhz Athlon box) and no change.
Comment 1 Michael K. Johnson 2001-02-08 21:15:47 UTC 
Have you brought this up with vmware technical support?
Comment 2 Alan Cox 2001-05-28 17:02:24 UTC 
No info provided since February. Assuming vmware folks resolved it
Comment 3 Bill Bradford 2001-05-28 17:53:07 UTC 
This was a bug that was filed against a beta version; at the time I was
told "VMWare is not a supported platform".  No longer an issue.
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