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From: Pandu Poluan <pandu@××××××.info>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Anyone running a gentoo guest on virtualbox?
Date: Tue, 31 May 2011 01:05:01
Message-Id: BANLkTi=Qz-hvF=PLwNcXyFLyBr=ACHbzpQ@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Anyone running a gentoo guest on virtualbox? by walt
1 Are you using a recent stage3 tarball? If so, I suspect your booting
2 problem has got something to do with this bug:
3
4 http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=368597
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6 Rgds,
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9 On 2011-05-31, walt <w41ter@×××××.com> wrote:
10 > In preparation for the upcoming "upgrade" to gnome3, I've installed
11 > the latest gentoo snapshot to a new virtualbox machine. (So I can
12 > trash my virtual gentoo machine instead of my real gentoo machine :)
13 >
14 > The virtual install went perfectly AFAICT, except for building a new
15 > customized kernel for the gentoo virtualbox machine.
16 >
17 > Here's what I did to configure my new customized gentoo kernel:
18 >
19 > I booted the gentoo install iso image in virtualbox and did lspci -k
20 > and wrote down all the drivers it displayed.
21 >
22 > I also booted my virtualbox ubuntu machine and did lspci -k and again
23 > wrote down all the listed drivers. (Only one extra driver showed up
24 > in ubuntu and I included it in my list of drivers to-be-installed.)
25 >
26 > I configured my new gentoo custom kernel to use all of the drivers I'd
27 > gathered from the steps above, and compiled and installed it without
28 > any problems.
29 >
30 > However, when I reboot the virtual gentoo guest machine with my new
31 > customized kernel, the boot hangs forever after discovering devices
32 > and mounting the root partition.ro.
33 >
34 > Obviously I've configured my custom kernel incorrectly, but how?
35 >
36 > If any of you have virtualbox guest gentoo machines running with a
37 > custom kernel, would you please post your guest .config file for my
38 > edification?
39 >
40 > Many thanks!
41 >
42 >
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49 My website: http://pandu.poluan.info/

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