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 1RXTD5-0000CY-GE for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 05 Dec 2011 07:43:35 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 186A121C06D; Mon, 5 Dec 2011 07:43:21 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-yx0-f181.google.com (mail-yx0-f181.google.com [209.85.213.181]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B266821C073 for ; Mon, 5 Dec 2011 07:41:46 +0000 (UTC) Received: by yenm12 with SMTP id m12so4766915yen.40 for ; Sun, 04 Dec 2011 23:41:46 -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=Dw2YKJsrIptp3MRSPLo/6vnABdr4/h/EEtbgMstsGdc=; b=djUDEKrWpHaWoaw2Nrerj43vKzDwgyqCfj1uinKwCGLfzNhGdgU5M4fS4AqRSdZFdX 4Ev8NPiyf/BExoyBBTSg2G9uy0vLnSWxIWPf12uZAiiZKlJtBLP+UadXyhOjrNp/K2PV QXzUU/Xzox3zEIuJ1Ex+XlG5hn26ohZyZf7X4= Received: by 10.236.114.132 with SMTP id c4mr9313288yhh.104.1323070905109; Sun, 04 Dec 2011 23:41:45 -0800 (PST) Received: from rohan.example.com (dustpuppy.is.co.za. [196.14.169.11]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id c10sm29930491yhj.2.2011.12.04.23.41.42 (version=SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Sun, 04 Dec 2011 23:41:44 -0800 (PST) Date: Mon, 5 Dec 2011 09:42:15 +0200 From: Alan McKinnon To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: vbox vm no boot Message-ID: <20111205094215.44c9a3cd@rohan.example.com> In-Reply-To: References: <87vcpwxau3.fsf@newsguy.com> <20111205000820.7b829d64@rohan.example.com> <87r50jykcx.fsf@newsguy.com> <87mxb7yiwk.fsf@newsguy.com> <20111205030758.33e7a4e2@rohan.example.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: 58dc6443-2db3-4f7e-b549-91f523228f76 X-Archives-Hash: bc432a7e06f1a978fb029ecad3f6f50d On Mon, 5 Dec 2011 08:20:22 +0700 Pandu Poluan wrote: > On Dec 5, 2011 8:13 AM, "Alan McKinnon" > wrote: > > > > On Mon, 5 Dec 2011 07:34:46 +0700 > > Pandu Poluan wrote: > > > > > On Dec 5, 2011 7:19 AM, "Harry Putnam" wrote: > > > > > > > > Harry Putnam writes: > > > > > > > > > Alan McKinnon 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.mckinnon@gmail.com