I need help on booting VmwAROS Live

[Heinz]

DiskDoctor wrote:
I need help.

Just downloaded VmwAROS Live distribution, burned it on a CD and tried to boot it.

I think you meant DVD ?
Or you grabbed an really old version...

On a boot selection regardless what I pick, nothing happens.  I mean either screen goes black or after IDE scanning it halts.

Use VGA screenmode to see more Debug output.
Make a photo and post ist here.
Give some more Hardware Info.

A simple "It does not work" will not help Developers finding the Bugs.

I tried to check my GFX card, it turned out to not have a driver installed :-) :-) so I installed one.  I turned to have  Intel XP 945GME card, having 256 MB memory shared with RAM which smells some SoC or something (it's a notebook).

:-?  :-?  :-?  :-?  :-?

On AROS requirements site it states that "A VESA-compliant VGA card is recommended".  It says nothing to me, It seems as a "No" answer.

Well, it is not supposed to say anything. Its a graphics standard...

So I need to make one thing clear; I won't run AROS on my machine, will I?

If you dont change your way to ask for help and to write bug reports, then the answer to you question is yes.

[Heinz]

DiskDoctor wrote:
@ Heinz


I get this.

It seems that ata.device has problems with your chipset.
This debug output looks very similar to what I have on my notebook.
(vmwAROS 1.0.2 does not work on my notebook too.)

Just try todays nightly build ISO.

That one will possibly boot.

What I meant was that I got Intel XP 945GME card, having 256 MB memory shared with RAM which never looks good.

Well you wrote something about installing drivers, wich does not make sense when you cant even boot AROS.
And installing Drivers on Windows wouldnt help too..

[Heinz]

What about trying the latest nightly build from www.aros.org ?
I used that to install AROS on my notebook and I am now copying all the good stuff from the vmwAROS DVD to the Hardrive