The installations hangs after the ">> Filling filesystem..., >> Booting..." when I try to install under VMWare 4.0. Tried several kernelparameters such as "gentoo-nofb noapic nolapic acpi=off pci=noapic nodma" without success. Platform is IBM Thinkpad R40 but the installation directly on the hardware causes no problem. In VMWare I've tried to install both from ISO-image and CD, same problem. Tried to install it on both emulated IDE and SCSI-disks, same problem. Tried to configure the VMWare host as both "Linux" (SCSI as default) and "Other" (IDE as default), same problem. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Create VMWare host - "Other" default 2. Tell VMWare to mount Gentoo ISO-image instead of CD 3. Boot system, enter gentoo-nofb 4. System hangs directly after "Booting", this is the step where the root-fs should be mounted and /sbin/init should be executed Actual Results: System hangs, but resonds on key strokes Expected Results: The installation should continue as expected, mount the root-fs (in the /dev/ram probably) and run /sbin/init
Have you tried VMware Workstation 4.5? It is a free upgrade if you have a 4.0 license. Also, I really cannot support this, as VMware is a proprietary closed-source product and also tends to run bootable CD media as if it were a giraffe dying. Try waiting a *long* time, like 15 to 30 minutes, before calling it quits. I have seen VMware spin and spin on a CD before, as I use it myself for testign releases, so I *know* that *every* release at *least* works in the version of VMWare that I am using. For 2005.0, that was 4.5...
No response, plus we've had a release since then that I know worked under VMWare 4.5 and 5.0, as I tested it under both.
