From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1RXKHD-00059i-QR for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sun, 04 Dec 2011 22:11:15 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 4EAA021C11A; Sun, 4 Dec 2011 22:10:57 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-ww0-f53.google.com (mail-ww0-f53.google.com [74.125.82.53]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D777A21C032 for ; Sun, 4 Dec 2011 22:08:40 +0000 (UTC) Received: by wgbds1 with SMTP id ds1so5983053wgb.10 for ; Sun, 04 Dec 2011 14:08:40 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=date:from:to:subject:message-id:in-reply-to:references:organization :x-mailer:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=UBjkNmsIaAigWIX6yOfs9dQI4mKjydf/qUYmwRTL5MA=; b=AUJzEU4atZhN5xpeNmdlF8oJ2/SwE65bK9yinQeNap500/1lKZF5woD2DvMQeyqucc 8LF4oZouLMtwnGAd4fJnQowgKrQ2B5pj+iJM8Zh/+6+ZHRB4pAF9LfY/w9LQ+fI7Zpad VFyXONX2Wky1t4TRytyMWCudbgHQqFYOfigeY= Received: by 10.227.209.146 with SMTP id gg18mr6408299wbb.6.1323036520015; Sun, 04 Dec 2011 14:08:40 -0800 (PST) Received: from rohan.example.com ([196.215.144.97]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id fw16sm24595685wbb.13.2011.12.04.14.08.37 (version=SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Sun, 04 Dec 2011 14:08:38 -0800 (PST) Date: Mon, 5 Dec 2011 00:08:20 +0200 From: Alan McKinnon To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] vbox vm no boot Message-ID: <20111205000820.7b829d64@rohan.example.com> In-Reply-To: <87vcpwxau3.fsf@newsguy.com> References: <87vcpwxau3.fsf@newsguy.com> Organization: Internet Solutions X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.7.8 (GTK+ 2.24.4; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Archives-Salt: 56fbd77c-f9ca-40ba-a9a8-79b0a66cbec0 X-Archives-Hash: c78d9a9c6ca35a8f4fa616cab56ecac9 On Sun, 04 Dec 2011 15:53:40 -0600 Harry Putnam 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.mckinnon@gmail.com