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 1RXMFB-0002Ie-UY for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 05 Dec 2011 00:17:18 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 86FD521C082; Mon, 5 Dec 2011 00:17:08 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A8B7CE05BE for ; Mon, 5 Dec 2011 00:15:36 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3F07F1B400C for ; Mon, 5 Dec 2011 00:15:36 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new using ClamAV at gentoo.org X-Spam-Flag: NO X-Spam-Score: -3.643 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-3.643 tagged_above=-999 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=-0.540, BAYES_00=-1.9, RP_MATCHES_RCVD=-1.201, SPF_HELO_PASS=-0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001] autolearn=ham Received: from smtp.gentoo.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.gentoo.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id MK0ASI4rSm0S for ; Mon, 5 Dec 2011 00:15:28 +0000 (UTC) Received: from lo.gmane.org (lo.gmane.org [80.91.229.12]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8D3221B4014 for ; Mon, 5 Dec 2011 00:15:28 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1RXMDK-0005aF-F8 for gentoo-user@gentoo.org; Mon, 05 Dec 2011 01:15:22 +0100 Received: from c-98-215-179-64.hsd1.in.comcast.net ([98.215.179.64]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 05 Dec 2011 01:15:22 +0100 Received: from reader by c-98-215-179-64.hsd1.in.comcast.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 05 Dec 2011 01:15:22 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org From: Harry Putnam Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: vbox vm no boot Date: Sun, 04 Dec 2011 18:14:03 -0600 Organization: Still searching... Message-ID: <87mxb7yiwk.fsf@newsguy.com> References: <87vcpwxau3.fsf@newsguy.com> <20111205000820.7b829d64@rohan.example.com> <87r50jykcx.fsf@newsguy.com> 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 X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: c-98-215-179-64.hsd1.in.comcast.net User-Agent: Gnus/5.110018 (No Gnus v0.18) Emacs/24.0.90 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:zSnWjdhQ4bbZaGlqCsGgo5iN+jo= X-Archives-Salt: c3d72f86-7087-4a5d-bc9b-cf0a95e17a52 X-Archives-Hash: e57fe7ee9c3045e73d4dbe348376885d 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