From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Neil Holmes Subject: Re: Elks in VMware Date: 26 May 2002 10:24:30 +0100 Sender: linux-8086-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <1022405071.2055.31.camel@nhthinkpad> References: <1022399555.2055.20.camel@nhthinkpad> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <1022399555.2055.20.camel@nhthinkpad> List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" To: Neil Holmes Cc: Linux 8086 I think we can forget this question. I seem to have found a problem with my tty creation. Sorry to have wasted time. Thanks Neil On Sun, 2002-05-26 at 08:52, Neil Holmes wrote: > I was looking for a reasonable interim test environment for the Elks > Distribution. I use VMware a lot and assumed that this would be the > place. However I have not been able to get Elks to boot under VMware (I > have version 3.0). The boot starts (four dots), then "Boot Failed. Is > there anything that I need to know here ? > > I have also tried dosemu as a test environment. It installs fine but, > because I have to alt-f2 to see my login on a hard drive root install (I > assume that is normal ?) I can't login. Is there any way you can alt-f2 > under dosemu ? > > Failing these two environments can anyone suggest any others that will > overcome my issue ? > > Have I overlooked something that means my hard drive installation of > Elks would not require alt-f2 after boot to give me my login prompt ? > > Many Thanks for any assistance with this. > > Neil > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-8086" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html >