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From: Harry Putnam <reader@×××××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-user] vbox vm no boot
Date: Sun, 04 Dec 2011 21:56:41
Message-Id: 87vcpwxau3.fsf@newsguy.com
1 Fresh install of gentoo as guest vm on win7
2
3 Configured kernel, fdisked like so:
4
5 /dev/sda1 boot
6 /dev/sda2 swap
7 /dev/sda3 /
8
9 set boot as bootable
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11 emerged various things...
12 emerged grub and ran it
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14 grub
15 root (hd0,0)
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17 setup (hd0,0)
18 bla bla
19 [...]
20 succeeded
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23 Edited fstab
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25 /dev/sda1 /boot [...]
26 /dev/sda2 swap [...]
27 /dev/sda3 / [...]
28 [...]
29
30 But, when I remove the livecd and attempt to boot from hdd, its a
31 total failure:
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33 FATAL: No bootable medium found! System halted
34
35 So it appears that as has always been the case, there is some PITA
36 stopping up the works.
37
38 So what is the trick here... one googled result says to boot with
39 something containing gparted and set the boot partition
40 bootable.. that cfdisk doesn't work.
41
42 I used fdisk... is there anything to that claim.. or better yet what
43 do I need to do here.

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Re: [gentoo-user] vbox vm no boot Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com>