Bug 38845 – No HD found trying to install from CD gentoo on a WmWare Workstation 4.0 virtual machine

• Status: RESOLVED INVALID
• Product: Gentoo Release Media

[Description dj_aileen 2004-01-20 14:10:59 UTC]

I tried to install a gentoo linux on a WmWare Workstation 4.0 virtual machine, but when I try to perform fdisk /dev/sda (wmware simulate a SCSI 0:0 disk) to create partition i receceive the message "unable to open /dev/sda".

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Use a windows 2000 workstation with wmware workstation 4.0 installed.
2. Run a virtual machine with 128 MB Ram and 4GB disk, put the cd1 in the cd rom for autoboot
3. After boot finished, at the command promp (logged as root) try fdisk /dev/sda

Actual Results:  
the fdisk command returns the message unable to open /dev/sda (I tryed a lot of 
combinations sdb sdc, hda, hdb, ecc. ecc.

Expected Results:  
Runnning fdisk on sda disk

[Comment 1 SpanKY 2004-01-20 14:48:03 UTC]

*** Bug 38846 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

[Comment 2 SpanKY 2004-01-20 14:48:38 UTC]

did you try modprobing for your scsi hardware ?

[Comment 3 Michiel de Bruijne 2004-01-20 14:56:27 UTC]

you need to type "gentoo doscsi" on the bootprompt

[Comment 4 SpanKY 2004-04-12 11:31:54 UTC]

you need to load the driver first

[Comment 5 Chris Gianelloni (RETIRED) 2005-03-25 11:24:26 UTC]

Moving these so we can remove the "Install CD" component from "Gentoo Linux".

I apologize to everyone for this spam, but according to the bugzilla developers,
this is the only reasonable way to do this.