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From: Mark Knecht <markknecht@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: WAS [.. min install isos] gentoo vm guest not booting
Date: Sun, 26 Jun 2011 01:10:33
Message-Id: BANLkTi=5G+U3TfviGr2pMfizXppk6fVGsw@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Re: WAS [.. min install isos] gentoo vm guest not booting by Harry Putnam
1 On Sat, Jun 25, 2011 at 5:17 PM, Harry Putnam <reader@×××××××.com> wrote:
2 > Mark Knecht <markknecht@×××××.com> writes:
3 >
4 >>>> Here's the kernel config from my 64-bit 2.6.38-gentoo-r3 VM
5 >>>
6 >>> Mark is that guest running in vmware or something else than Virtual Box.
7 >>
8 >> The guest that uses that kernel is running in Virtualbox-4.0.8.
9 >>
10 >> The host is a Gentoo64-bit system, 98% stable, 2% ~amd64.
11 >
12 > Sorry about my brain deadedness, but when I click on that thing in
13 > windows 7 with Virtual Box installed... nothing knows how to open it.
14 >
15 > Trying it another way round I try importing it from a running Virtual
16 > Box Manager. When I open the directory containing `base_dist.vmdk'
17 > nothing is visible in the VB import dialog screen.
18 >
19 > The file ending that vbox uses is *.vbox so trying a quick rename but
20 > Vbox does not recognize the file you posted.
21 >
22
23 I think we're not communicating then. The file I sent you was
24 /usr/src/linux.config in the VM. It's not a file that VB would run,
25 but rather a kernel config you might use to build a kernel to make
26 your VM boot. That of course assumes that the hardware model you built
27 in VB matches mine. I renamed the file thinking you'd want to keep it
28 referenced to me. you'd need to name it back to .config, put it in
29 your /usr/src/linux, possibly run make oldconfig, and then check the
30 file. If all that worked out you'd build the kernel as normal.
31
32 If you want a specific VB file from my install let me know exactly
33 which one and I can forward a copy of that.
34
35 - Mark

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[gentoo-user] Re: WAS [.. min install isos] gentoo vm guest not booting Harry Putnam <reader@×××××××.com>