VMware server cannot run on FC6

Paul Smith phhs80 at gmail.com
Thu Oct 26 11:41:05 UTC 2006


On 10/26/06, Andy Green <andy at warmcat.com> wrote:
> > Yes, I did install i686 kernels, and I am looking to the /boot
> > directory from a FC4 partition that I have on the same computer. I
> > have mounted the FC6 partition with the command:
> >
> > mount -t ext3 /dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 /mnt/fc6
> >
> > Any ideas?
>
> Yes: /boot is a separate partition all unto itself by default.  You need
> to mount that too, otherwise you are just looking at the empty
> mountpoint directory.  It will need something like this in your case
>
> mount /dev/hda1 /mnt/fc6/boot
>
> In case it is needed, here is an example /boot/grub/grub.conf from my box
>
> default=0
> timeout=1
> splashimage=(hd0,0)/boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz
> hiddenmenu
> title Fedora Core (2.6.18-1.2798.fc6)
>          root (hd0,0)
>          kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.18-1.2798.fc6 ro quiet root=LABEL=/
> pci=assign-busses
>          initrd /boot/initrd-2.6.18-1.2798.fc6.img

Did so, but there is no grub.conf file in /mnt/fc6/etc. And,
furthermore, I cannot create it on /mnt/fc6/etc.

Any further ideas?

Paul




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