problems with installing gentoo under vmware 5

xdamnx · n00b Joined: 29 Oct 2002 Posts: 61 Location: Germany

hi there,

i'm currently trying to get gentoo working under vmware 5. everything went fine until first reboot,
there stops the boots process with following error msg:

Kosa · Posted: Sun May 08, 2005 10:09 pm Post subject:

Try this: https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-325623-highlight-vmware+scsi.html, maybe you're missing Fusion MTP Support in Kernel (Device Drivers/Fusion MPT).

jd5419 · Posted: Mon May 09, 2005 12:13 am Post subject:

Does VM-Ware 5 force you to use scsi device or can it be setup to use an IDE device instead?

Kosa · Posted: Mon May 09, 2005 7:35 am Post subject:

It can be setup to use IDE device, but default and recomended is SCSI (Who knows why)

humble_programmer · n00b Joined: 08 Apr 2004 Posts: 25 Location: Germany

I experienced the same "Can't find /dev/sda3" kernel panic when I upgraded from version 4.5 to 5.0 of VMWare Workstation. Enabling the MPT Fusion support in the kernel (CONFIG_FUSION=y) was the only change needed to resolve the problem.
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