Pandu Poluan <pa...@poluan.info> writes: > On Dec 4, 2011 11:40 PM, "Harry Putnam" <rea...@newsguy.com> wrote: >> >> Installing fresh gentoo in guest vm on win7 >> >> Before I even try to configure a kernel, because I've been down this >> road a few times, and so far have always had trouble getting a kernel >> config that boots first time on gentoo vm. >> >> The vm is a gentoo guest installed with Vbox on windows 7. >> >> Its been a while since I've done this but I recall having trouble >> getting the right drivers so that disks are properly discovered during >> boot. >> >> I think this kind of config is pretty generic but still manage to get >> it wrong repeatedly. >> >> Can anyone post a kernel .config that is known to boot a gentoo Vbox >> vm installed on windows 7. Or is there a generic config that will do >> that? I've tried genkernel in the past too, and still no boot on a vm. >> >> I guess it would be kernel-3.1.4. >> > > Did it fail halfway during boot, or was it completely unable to load the > kernel?
Well, like I said, I haven't even tried yet. But last time it booted to the point of recognizing my disks and thats what failed. So the correct mod for vm disks was missing I guess.
