OSR5.0.5 + vmware (4.5.2)

I followed the article here on how to install OSR upon vmware 4.0. The setup includes a scsi boot/root disk on blc(0,0,0) , a data disk on scsi id 6 and an ide cdrom as secondary master and a very small ide disk as primary master. This worked great and has done so for almost a year now. However, linux compatibility issues forced me to upgrade to vmware 4.5.2. This is when the fun begins:

At first the vm would not boot at all. Som changes in the boot order in vmware bios made the boot prompt come up again.

Next, the kernel boots but cant find root at hd(42). After hours of reading SCOhelp i realised that the kernel is looking for hd(4x) on the ide drive (essentially empty) . it is not initialising the blc disks.

I finally got it working using this boot string:

 
Boot 
: defbootstr Sdsk=blc(0,0,0,0) disable=wd 

This boots it up alright, but leaves wd disabled and my cd-rom useless. i have tried using one of the above at a time but it only works using both.

What should i do? I suppose moving the CD to the SCSI bus and removing the wd driver completely would be a smart thing to do, but how do i do that without braking anything?

Is there even a smarter way to solve this issue ?

/Matt

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Fri Oct 21 17:20:36 2005: Subject:   rbailin
If you search this website for "mixed ide scsi", you'll find several references on how ide & scsi drives can co-exist on OpenServer. Long story short, if you must mix, the boot drive has to be ide on most systems.



But there's no reason to include the ide disk at all! Just delete it, make the cdrom primary master, and boot Openserver without the boot string. Then go into mkdev cdrom, delete the old cdrom definition (secondary master) and add the new one (primary master). Relink, reboot and you're done.

Bob

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