Using physical disk with VMware Workstation

Posted by chx on Super User See other posts from Super User or by chx
Published on 2012-09-23T04:01:03Z Indexed on 2012/09/23 9:40 UTC
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I am using VMware Workstation 9.0 under Windows 7 and trying to load my Linux from Physicaldisk0. And it boots, grub sees the two partitions on the disk (I checked in command line) and the kernel and the initrd loads and then it stops saying "device not found"and drops me into an emergency shell. Indeed there is absolutely nothing in /dev not the /sda device it expects not /hda nothing that looks like a disk.

Edit: I can boot the Linux disk just fine if I boot it from BIOS and not as a VM.

Edit2: The question is, how can I make this setup work?

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