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

[Pandu Poluan]

On Dec 5, 2011 8:13 AM, "Alan McKinnon" <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com> wrote:
>
> On Mon, 5 Dec 2011 07:34:46 +0700
> Pandu Poluan <pandu@××××××.info> wrote:
>
> > On Dec 5, 2011 7:19 AM, "Harry Putnam" <reader@×××××××.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > Harry Putnam <reader@×××××××.com> writes:
> > >
> > > > Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@×××××.com> writes:
> > > >
> > > > [...]
> > > >
> > > >> A Gentoo VM on a Linux host works fine here with the same setup.
> > > >> Let's examine the host settings first as that affects booting
> > > >> too.
> > > >>
> > > >> What settings do you have on the System and Storage tabs on the
> > > >> VBox host for that vm?
> > > >
> > > > I guess the easiest is to post screen shots of those tabs:
> > > >
> > > >    www.jtan.com/~reader/vu2/disp.cgi
> > > >
> > > > I did notice that on System tab the chipset is listed as piix3
> > > > and on Storage Tab it shows `type' as PIIX4.  At first there were
> > > > no other choices on the drop downs, so I assumed it was ok like
> > > > that... now I see the dropdown on Storage has gotten populated
> > > > since I last tried it.
> > > >
> > > > I set it to match the System `chip' PIIX3... but still the same
> > > > failure.
> > > >
> > > > Maybe those are not related to the problem?
> > >
> > > Haa... that google hit I mentioned about resetting bootable with
> > > gparted worked... Now bootup starts.  But the same old sorry bs I
> > > have always hit with gentoo when trying to setup a vm is now
> > > present and accounted for...
> > >
> > > www.jtan.com/~reader/vu1/disp.cgi
> > >
> >
> > Seems to be a case of missing driver to me :-)
>
> I'm not convinced. The error is:
>
> FATAL: No bootable medium found! System halted
>

Have you seen his last screen cap? The latest error message is now:

Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: unable to mount root.

The preceding lines don't indicate the kernel recognizing any hard disks,
so I guessed the right driver has not been loaded.

Rgds,