On Nov 14, 2007 8:06 PM, Gordon R. Keehn <gordonkeehn@xxxxxxxxxxx> 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. I've seen this too. On a system at work with scsi disks, everything's fine. On my old desktop at home with IDE disks I saw the behaviour you describe. I zapped the vm and set up a new one emulating IDE disks rather than SCSI and the problem went away. Of course this requires a re-install, but as I was testing kickstart, this wasn't an issue for me. Chris
