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From: Harry Putnam <reader@×××××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-user] kernel choices for booting gentoo as guest in vbox vm
Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2018 12:45:23
Message-Id: x6y3kejiyt.fsf@newsguy.com
1 Installing gentoo as guest into vbox vm on solaris-11 (openindiana)
2 HOST
3 gentoo-17
4 VBox 5.2.6
5 Kernel 4.15.0
6
7 My first boot resulted in resulted in a kernel panic... not able to
8 mount root.
9
10 I checked my /etc/fstab trying to make sure I didn't make a stupid
11 mistake there... it appear to be sound. (Included at the end of post)
12
13 I suspect it may be the result of a kernel choice... or rather the
14 lack of one. Something that would have been able to mount /
15
16 I thought it would be ata_piix and made sure that was selected in
17 kernel .config
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19 I'm thinking it may be be ata_generic, which I did not have selected.
20 Which I have now enabled. But I see now, that is for IDE.
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22 In a chroot now I can see lspci -k shows ata_piix in use .. but that
23 would probably be because in vbox I have the gentoo install media on
24 IDE secondary master. But also shows sata controller ahci
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26 Which I do also have selected in .config. However there a number of
27 AHCI choices in the kernel config that were not selected.
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29 Can anyone tell me what they used to allow gentoo in vbox to boot?

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Re: [gentoo-user] kernel choices for booting gentoo as guest in vbox vm 80x24 <aleiphoenix@×××××.com>
Re: [gentoo-user] kernel choices for booting gentoo as guest in vbox vm Alexander Kapshuk <alexander.kapshuk@×××××.com>