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