[ubuntu-uk] jeOS!! umm does it work?

[Tom Bamford]

Michael Holloway wrote:
> Has anybody else tried jeOS yet? 
>
> I have tried it on 3 different VMWare servers, 2 AMD based, and one
> Intel. No matter how hard i try, i cant get it to work. It installs
> fine, and then freezes on boot, failing to load the Kernel. It would
> appear that it cant mount the drive. Even when i edit the grub
> parameters to use /dev/sda1 instead of the UUID. Even after booting from
> the CD and reinstalling grub etc etc. I've tried to use SCSI and IDE
> hard drives (i mean virtual hard drives) to no avail. Any one got any
> ideas, or come across the problem?  Googling has not resulted in
> anything useful.
>
> btw , these 3 vmware servers are all running various other versions of
> Ubuntu, from 6.06 to 7.10.
>
>
>
>   

I've just installed JeOS 7.10 on VMware Workstation 6.0.2 on an Ubuntu 
7.10 i386 host. It installed perfectly using an IDE emulated hard disk 
and now it's updated. One cool thing I noticed is that the VMware guest 
kernel modules are included already in JeOS, that is vmhgfs, vmblock, 
vmxnet and vmmemctl.

I used to have a problem installing Dapper Server 6.06 on older versions 
of VMware. The solution I found was to use the desktop kernel rather 
than the server kernel as I couldn't get the server kernel to boot on 
virtual hardware. It's been ages since I had this problem though, I 
doubt it's even the same issue. What version of VMware software are you 
running?

Regards,
Tom