I need help on booting VmwAROS Live

[paolone]

Hi DiskDoctor, here are some answers:

- if you have burned VmwAROS 1.0 or 1.0.2 on a CD-ROM, well, you probably have thrown away a CD: you need a DVD to do that.

- VESA is a standard for graphic cards, I can't make a list of hundreds of different vendors chipsets that supports it. However, you're "lucky": Intel failed following this standard in a proper ways many times, so maybe you have better using a discrete Nvidia or ATI card (they both work in VESA modes, when native driver ones fail).

- have you tried "emergency mode" kernel? what does it happens?

- have your tried VGA modes? What are the latest messages you can read on the screen?

- have you tried disabling the floppy controller from BIOS? this sometimes helped booting

and

what version of VmwAROS are you using? I need at least the version number to help you a little more.

[paolone]

Hi, sometimes BIOS settings conflict with VmwAROS 1.0.2. I'm working on Icaros Desktop 1.1, and I hope to find a way to fix most of them. In the meanwhile, please try this:

1. be sure your eide hdd and cdrom are wired and connected correctly

MOBO Master0 ============ SLAVE:DVDROM === MASTER:primary HDD

2. that you are installing AROS on master 0 (first channel eide)

3. if you have UHCI USB controller, disable it if you can. UHCI makes VmwAROS 1.0.2 crash

4. try toggling "legacy USB support" in your BIOS

5. try toggling SATA controllers on and off in your bios

6. try toggling Floppy controller on and off in your bios

7. follow the procedure described in VmwAROS manual.