World: r4wp

also, is there a way for the desktop size to be remembered?

I'm just re-doing the VM now to try and correct that

Not finding the boot partition may also be caused by a SATA controller. 
On real hardware, some SATA systems shift drive numbers. There's 
a compensation attempt in the Syllable installation troubleshooting 
options, but that doesn't include the options for VMware

You mean the screen resolution? That is stored when you change it 
in the Preferences

it doesn't seem to be made permanent, though

Was that when you forced the VM to stop?

no, I think it wasn't retained even when I shut down cleanly

but I'll try again once I'm finished re-installing

That has never happened before. It should mean some corruption in 
the emulation somewhere

if it was a SATA issue with the boot, would that not make it impossible 
to find it with the auto find option?

because it does find it, like that

Maybe, but the auto-find option is there for when the static configuration 
doesn't work. So you're lucky that the next option does work :-)

And it points to the partition number being shifted

did the install again, and have the same boot issue - will try it 
yet again and see if I can fix it by editing menu.lst - do you think 
that should work?

Yes, look in the System Manager or df in the terminal what partition 
number you have, then adapt the menu.lst

The fundamental way to fix it would be to change the VMware emulation 
to ATA/IDE

I believe it is using ata/ide

not SATA

df shows /dev/disk/ata/hdd/0

menu.lst has root=/dev/disk/ata/hdd/0

isn't that OK

?

Did you mount the image in an odd position in VMware? A normal boot 
drive is hda

In ATA terms, hdd is the slave drive on the second controller

What does the GrUB root() command in menu.lst say?

(hd3,0)

At least that's consistent. I don't know why that boot menu option 
would not work

Can't you mount the image as primary master in VMware?

I don't think I had the choice

You mount it somewhere when you create it, don't you?

Back later

k

Was watching Arnold's riots

I've re-installed yet again and gotten it to work by selecting the 
first controller - for some reason the installation defaults to putting 
the HD on controller 1 as the second device - the CD being the first 
on the same controller

I guess the logic in grub should be able to find it even on the second 
controller, no? In any case, it works now with the first menu option

riots?

btw, confirmed that the screen resolution isn't persisted

even with a clean shutdown

Odd

More about the riots in Chit Chat

Do the virtual desktops work for switching resolution, as described 
in the Welcome?

yes

GrUB should be adble to start from anywhere as long as it's consistent. 
Dunno why it didn't here, but in general, emulators are weird

easy to switch using alt key, so no big problem - it would be nice 
if there was a 1920x1200 one though, so that going full screen would 
use all space

Sorry, have to leave again for supper

k - I'll make an image and post a link here

Great

for the screen resolutions - could 1920x1080 be added as well? - 
that's my laptop rez - the other is my external monitor. The existing 
choices seem to reflect older 4:3 displays only

Few of the drivers support widescreen resolutions, but you can try

For new features, newer versions of the drivers need to be ported 
to Syllable, but people stopped doing that years ago