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On Sun, 04 Dec 2011 15:53:40 -0600 |
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Harry Putnam <reader@×××××××.com> wrote: |
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> Fresh install of gentoo as guest vm on win7 |
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> Configured kernel, fdisked like so: |
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> /dev/sda1 boot |
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> /dev/sda2 swap |
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> /dev/sda3 / |
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> set boot as bootable |
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> emerged various things... |
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> emerged grub and ran it |
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> grub |
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> root (hd0,0) |
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> setup (hd0,0) |
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> bla bla |
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> [...] |
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> succeeded |
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> Edited fstab |
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> /dev/sda1 /boot [...] |
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> /dev/sda2 swap [...] |
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> /dev/sda3 / [...] |
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> [...] |
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> But, when I remove the livecd and attempt to boot from hdd, its a |
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> total failure: |
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> FATAL: No bootable medium found! System halted |
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> So it appears that as has always been the case, there is some PITA |
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> stopping up the works. |
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> So what is the trick here... one googled result says to boot with |
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> something containing gparted and set the boot partition |
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> bootable.. that cfdisk doesn't work. |
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> I used fdisk... is there anything to that claim.. or better yet what |
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> do I need to do here. |
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A Gentoo VM on a Linux host works fine here with the same setup. Let's |
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examine the host settings first as that affects booting too. |
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What settings do you have on the System and Storage tabs on the VBox |
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host for that vm? |
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Alan McKinnnon |
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alan.mckinnon@×××××.com |
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