Has anybody managed to create a vmware image using rescue CD

Hi I'm trying to create a test environment for application development on aa1. I want to use a vmware image for easy restore etc. I've been trying to create an image using the rescue CD, but so far I've been unsuccessful. Here's what I've done so far;
1/ Created linux flavoured vmware image, with IDE disk, USB, no floppy etc
2/ Boot it with the rescue CD, select install, proceeds through copying etc
3/ reboot into it - just get black screen
4/ I read somewhere that Linpus have 'silenced' the grub screen, so boot from Fedora 8 rescue CD
5/ mount Linpus install disk and chroot /mnt/sysimage
6/ install grub rpm + grub-install /dev/sda
7/ remove unused /etc/grub.conf and make link to /boot/grub/grub.conf
8/ edit /boot/grub/grub.conf - remove vga + silent options
9/ exit and reboot.
10/ can now see grub menu and boot process
11/ get almost as far as mounting root then nash segfaults
12/ try building a new initrd on Linpus 9.5 system and copy over
13/ now boot with new initrd - no segfault, but can't mount root

Any ideas where I can look next?

TIA, Andrew

 

Maybe this will help as it describes how to increase the verbosity of debugging info ...

http://linux.derkeiler.com/Mailing-List ... /7867.html

Cheers.

 

Hi andrewbird,

did you manage to create a vmware image with the link of rbil, or are you still stuggeling?
I didn't come as far as you did and I also would appriciate an image for testing in a virtual machine.