F8 Boot Under VMware Server (Solved)

[Gordon Keehn]

Gordon R. Keehn wrote:
>     I'm running Fedora 8 under VMware Server 1.0.4 on two WinXP Pro 
> systems, one an IBM Thinkpad T41, the other a ThinkCentre A60.  
> Virtual machine specs are identical.  On one system (the Thinkpad), 
> Fedora boots directly (and quickly).  On the desktop system, during 
> boot, Fedora seems to be trying to access some hundred or so devices 
> from SDA through SDDZ, taking close to 30 minutes to get into the real 
> boot process. Both were installed from the DVD .iso downloaded with 
> Azureus.
>     Has anyone run into a similar issue, and (hopefully) figured out 
> how to get around it.  I'm hopeful it's a configuration file 
> somewhere, that can be tweaked manually.
>     Thanks,
> Gordon Keehn
>
    I lied.  The virtual hard drives for the VM on the Thinkpad emulated 
IDE drives;  when defining the VM on the ThinkCentre I took the 
"recommendation" and emulated SCSI drives.  We won't go into the fact 
that virtual machines running kubuntu on the same two hosts both use 
SCSI emulation without a hitch.

Gordon Keehn