Re: [gentoo-user] Re: vbox vm no boot

[Mick]

On Monday 05 Dec 2011 01:25:06 Harry Putnam wrote:
> Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com> writes:
> > FATAL: No bootable medium found! System halted
> >
> > That's a BIOS error, the vm's kernel and it's drivers have not yet been
> > loaded, never mind running when that happens. In this respect a VM
> > works just like physical hardware, so what does one do with that error
> > on physical hardware? you check the BIOS settings.
> >
> > Harry, start the VM and engage the BIOS setup, see what it has been
> > configured to do wrt booting.
>
> You may have missed a post where I reported that resetting /dev/sda1
> as bootable using gparted rather than fdisk, allowed the boot to
> proceed.  We are now at a kernel panic posted at:
>
>    www.jtan.com/~reader/vu1/disp.cgi
>
> Where it appears there is a missing driver.

Did you try to untick the floppy drive (from the storage tab)?
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Regards,
Mick