On Mon, 5 Dec 2011 08:20:22 +0700 Pandu Poluan <pa...@poluan.info> wrote:
> On Dec 5, 2011 8:13 AM, "Alan McKinnon" <alan.mckin...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > > On Mon, 5 Dec 2011 07:34:46 +0700 > > Pandu Poluan <pa...@poluan.info> wrote: > > > > > On Dec 5, 2011 7:19 AM, "Harry Putnam" <rea...@newsguy.com> wrote: > > > > > > > > Harry Putnam <rea...@newsguy.com> writes: > > > > > > > > > Alan McKinnon <alan.mckin...@gmail.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. Yes, I see the latest screenshot now. Must have missed that one. Harry, that error almost always indicates you do not have the drivers for PIIX compiled into the kernel. I assume you are not using an initramfs so that driver must be compiled in, not a module. In make menuconfig, it's found at Device Drivers -> Serial ATA and Parallel ATA drivers Similar for the file system driver (presumably ext2|3|4) for the partition hosting /boot, that too must be compiled in (not a module) -- Alan McKinnnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com
