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I've never yet managed to build a booting vm with gentoo. Probably my |
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own fault, but I don't want to wrangle and study and diddle around |
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endlessly. Which appears to be what it takes for me anyway. |
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This is a i7 64 bit system using semi newish and common sata disks (WD |
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500GB [black]), and I don't need trick raid modules or the like, so |
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should be easy enough to build a kernel for. |
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( Setup: QuadCore Intel i7 820QM, 2648 MHz (20 x 132) - 8GB ram) |
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I've found that even a genkernel built kernel including the kitchen |
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sink will fail to boot. |
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Debian and Opensolaris installed in vbox vms with ease |
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I don't want to keep wasting time building the basic OS, only to have |
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it not boot. |
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I'm not speaking from real recent experience so it probably wouldn't |
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be much help to ask what error I'm having or such like. I just know |
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from oft repeated attempts from time to time, that it will be a pita |
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so would sooner just try a known working appliance ready made. |
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In case you are thinking, I'm lazy... well yeah, somewhat... but I |
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have put in extensive effort over time... Just want the easy route |
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this time. (I'm also older than dirt .. hehe) |