The GUI in NetWare 6 won't start during installation
If you install NetWare 6 in VMware Workstation you might encounter the problem that the GUI doesn't start during installation. There are a few possible solutions for this problem:
1. add the line svga.8bitonly = TRUE to your VMX-file
2. set the colordepth of your host to 256 colors
3. repeat the command that is in the keyboard buffer: NWISTART
4. Or: (more complex) follow this tip (thanks to Oscar Sanchez at Novell and Roel van Bueren)
(PS: sometimes it also starts the GUI by going into the debugger and just type g (to go), if not: follow the entire tip.)
If you are familiar with the DEBUG mode on Netware I can give you the solution. The problem is with the symcjit.nlm tread running in memory. You need to do a break point of that tread. Once the tread is killed the GUI starts to work.
If you know how to navigate in DEBUG then here is what you need to do...
- .p
- go to the java thread on the ready que usually JAVA_something
- ddt the address (example ddt d5e461a0)
- hit enter until you get to the first instance of symcjit function
- type b=[address of the symcjit]
- hit g
- hit bca
hit g
done...
The GUI will continue to work
Good luck