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I'm trying to get my Windows XP (SP3) hard drive (/dev/sdb) to boot in my RHEL5.4 x64 install.

I've run through the create vmdk and updating permissions (http://blarts.wordpress.com/2007/12/06/ ... isty-fawn/)

So now I'm able to mount the VMDK as my normal user and not root.

I select WindowsXP to boot, it goes for a bit ("Windows did not shut down properly, yada yada do you want to boot in Safe Mode or normal"). When I select normal boot, the completion bar goes to 100% and then the boot process stops.

When I select "Safe Mode" it gets stuck at line:
multi(0)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS\System32\Drivers\Mup.sys

This is the first time I've tried to get it to boot in a VM, so I'm assuming it's some sort of driver conflict, which is why I tried safe mode.

Any suggestions for getting this to boot? I'm running the latest VirtualBox .rpm that I downloaded yesterday. I could repair install but I'd like to know if there's a workaround first.

Checked the howto at the top of this forum?

Yes I have.

# Virtual Machine Configuration -- Already double checked
# Partitioning -- Already partitioned
# VMDK creation and usage -- Did it already by following the user manual
# Installation (in VM) --Won't boot
# Booting natively -- Doesn't apply at this point
# Backup
# Windows activation -- Haven't booted
# What about Vista? -- Don't have.

But the howto notes the hardware difference part, which you have skipped. When I used Windows 2000 at school, booting the same install on a different computer with almost the same chipset (but obviously a different IDE controller) resulted in a BSOD. The reason yours won't boot is the same, certain drivers are loaded and it fails on that.