Re: Vmware 3.1 and OpenBSD 3.1 as guest VM

["Lawrence W. Smith" <lws@juiceco.com>]

> Hi All.
> 
> I've searched the Archives about running OpenBSD as a guest 
> VM (OS), and
> thus far I have not found much info about running it successfully.  
> 
> During installation everything went fine.  But upon re-booting after
> installation I was getting "Using Drive: 0 Partition: 3" error.  I've
> had this error before (during a laptop install a few months 
> ago, and did
> the following and everything worked fine afterwards) and I 
> followed the
> instructions in the faq sec 14.6, and loaded the Booteasy, It 
> ran fine,
> but now upon a reboot it's asking for "load default F????"  
> And nothing
> I do on the keyboard make a difference. 
> 
> I can still boot the install from a floppy with the following.
> boot> boot hd0a:/bsd
> 
> Is anyone running OpenBSD 3.1 as a guest OS, and if so, how was it
> accomplished?  

Try setting the guest OS to be DOS, boot from floppy or even floppy
image then follow setup as normal. Leaving virtual devices as their
defaults has proven to be more successful than trying to use real
devices as well. 

hth

L