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Oracle Linux 6 installation FAILURE on VMWare virtual machine

Terry PhelpsFeb 24 2011 — edited Feb 24 2011
I just downloaded OEL 6.0 x64, created a new VMWare virtual machine (I have many VMWare VMs running various flavors of OEL 5) and did an installation. It all seemed to work fine. I was just testing, so I didn't do any customization. It finished, and looked good, just like all the other ones I've done. I clicked "reboot", and it did. Or it tried to.

It did boot from the disk, but after about 15 seconds, it said:

No root device found
Boot has failed, sleeping forever.

I retried the installation using a fresh VM, and even let the installer check the whole DVD first. Same result.

Anyone installed OEL 6 to a virtual machine on VMWare ESX?

Any idea what the heck could be wrong?
This post has been answered by Sergio-Oracle on Feb 24 2011
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