From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Jun 5 10:49:14 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from ece.cmu.edu (ECE.CMU.EDU [128.2.236.200]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 651CE37B401 for ; Tue, 5 Jun 2001 10:49:11 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from allbery@ece.cmu.edu) Received: from vpn16.ece.cmu.edu (cqvefv@DYN-76-237.WV.CC.CMU.EDU [128.2.76.237]) (authenticated) by ece.cmu.edu (8.11.0/8.10.2) with ESMTP id f55HnAg18689 for ; Tue, 5 Jun 2001 13:49:10 -0400 (EDT) Date: Tue, 05 Jun 2001 13:49:10 -0400 From: "Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH" To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cooked/raw ad0 Message-ID: <56850000.991763350@vpn16.ece.cmu.edu> In-Reply-To: <20010605133813.F14469@pir.net> References: <20010605133813.F14469@pir.net> X-Mailer: Mulberry/2.1.0a6 (Linux/x86) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tuesday, June 05, 2001 13:38:13 -0400, Peter Radcliffe wrote: +----- | > which seems to be causing havoc with vmware, which wants a raw disk. | | vmware is working fine for me. Did you remove and reinstall the vmware | port when you upgraded the machine ? | | I have a plain disk set to /dev/hda; +--->8 Sounds to me like he's trying to use a VMware "raw disk", which is documented to not work (it expects Linux major numbers). -- brandon s. allbery [os/2][linux][solaris][japh] allbery@kf8nh.apk.net system administrator [WAY too many hats] allbery@ece.cmu.edu electrical and computer engineering KF8NH carnegie mellon university ["better check the oblivious first" -ke6sls] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message