2.5.72 as VMware guest doesn't boot

[Peter Braam <braam@clusterfs.com>]

Hi, 

I'm trying to boot a 2.5.72 guest in VMware workstation 3.2. 

It uncompresess the kernel, says it is booting linux, and that's the
end of the console messages.  

I have the feeling that I have possibly grossly misconfigured the
kernel. Does someone have a working .config file?

Just in case it's something more interesting, kgdb (which hasn't hit
it's initial breakpoint yet) shows:

(gdb) target remote /dev/ttys0
Remote debugging using /dev/ttys0
0x3c0a2965 in ?? ()
warning: shared library handler failed to enable breakpoint
(gdb) bt
#0  0x3c0a2965 in ?? ()
#1  0xc010c2fa in do_IRQ (regs=
      {ebx = 67598, ecx = 0, edx = 20831, esi = 636928, edi = -1072672768,
= -1070014472, eax = -1054257152, xds = 123, xes = 123, orig_eax = -256,
= -1070013788, xcs = 96, eflags = 646, esp = -1070012999, xss =
0481085})
    at arch/i386/kernel/irq.c:503
#2  0xc010ac70 in common_interrupt () at arch/i386/kernel/entry.S:426
(gdb) c
Continuing.
Can't send signals to this remote system.  SIGEMT not sent.
                                                                           
Program received signal SIGEMT, Emulation trap.
0x3c0a2965 in ?? ()
(gdb)

Thanks for any help.

- Peter -