[PLUG] Kernel builds, 2.4.7, and VMware GSX?

[Jeff Dean <jdean@ieee.org>]

Hi.  Anybody out there using VMware?  I have an SMP Dell server that I'm 
trying to get VMware running with.  It has a stock RH71 
installation.  VMware's config failed, so I built a 2.4.7 kernel, but 
VMware didn't like that one either.  So I tried to rebuild 2.4.2 from the 
RH installation as directed by VMware.  This is where my problem gets 
frustrating.

When I boot the new 2.4.2 kernel it panics when it looks for /.  This is an 
all-SCSI system, so I'm guessing that it's an initrd problem, but I'm using 
the same root partition and initrd image as for the stock 2.4.2 kernel from 
RH.  The error message is something like "can't find root partition on 
8.08"..."please specify the root partition" or somesuch.  LILO is working 
fine with each of the new kernels.

The 2.4.7 I built booted fine, but I compiled everything in (MEGAraid, 
SCSI, Intel Ethernet, etc.) so there's no modules problem.

Am I on the right track here?

jd


Jeff Dean
jdean@ieee.org


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