vmware cannot detect physical hard drive

[Alexander Leidinger]

Quoting Xavier Otazu <xotazu at cvc.uab.es> (from Fri, 09 Jun 2006  
14:18:11 +0200):

>
>
> 	Hello:
>
> 	When trying to configure a virutal machine using vmware3, I
> tell it to use a physical drive, but it tells that /dev/hda is not
> present.
>
> 	I have activated linproc, and a /compat/linux/dev/hda

linprocfs is not related to /dev.

> file was created afeter installing vmware. I've also loaded aio.ko as

A guess: "rm -rf /compat/linux/dev" and try to use /dev/ad0 (or da0 if  
it's a SCSI drive).

Bye,
Alexander.

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