vmware3 on FreeBSD 6 - cannot open md0

[Josef Karthauser]

Does anyone have a solution for this yet?

Joe

On Mon, Nov 21, 2005 at 03:06:41PM +0000, Josef Karthauser wrote:
> I'm happy to see that vmware3 now compiles on FreeBSD 6 and an looking
> forward to using it again.  However, when I start it I get:
> 
>     Unable to open either the disk '/dev/md0'....
> 
> Strange.  I used to be able to used a memory disk for my files under
> FreeBSD 5.  Doesn't anyone know what's going on?
> 
> For reference:
> 
>     genius% ls -ld /dev/md0
>     crw-rw-rw-  1 root  operator    0, 130 Nov 21 12:12 /dev/md0
>     genius% id
>     uid=100(joe) gid=100(joe) groups=100(joe), 0(wheel), 5(operator), 68(dialer)
> 
> and it's definitely a good disk:
> 
>     genius# mount_ntfs /dev/md0s1 /mnt
>     genius# ls /mnt
>     $AttrDef                  $Volume                   Program Files
>     $BadClus                  AUTOEXEC.BAT              RECYCLER
>     $Bitmap                   Binaries                  System Volume Information
>     $Boot                     CONFIG.SYS                WINDOWS
>     $Extend                   Documents and Settings    Websites
>     $LogFile                  IO.SYS                    boot.ini
>     $MFTMirr                  Inetpub                   clj4500
>     $Secure                   MSDOS.SYS                 ntldr
>     $UpCase                   NTDETECT.COM              pagefile.sys
> 
> And also:
> 
>     genius# ls -l /compat/linux/dev/md*
>     lrwxrwxrwx  1 root  wheel  8 Dec  7  2004 /compat/linux/dev/md0 -> /dev/md0
> 
> What gives?  Me confused.  It's not the block vs character device issue
> again is it?   I thought that we'd fixed that ages ago... :(
> 
> Joe
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