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 1RXNLz-0001kK-HI for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 05 Dec 2011 01:28:24 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id DFD9F21C054; Mon, 5 Dec 2011 01:28:14 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B7A9721C058 for ; Mon, 5 Dec 2011 01:26:23 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1EDD01B4013 for ; Mon, 5 Dec 2011 01:26:23 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new using ClamAV at gentoo.org X-Spam-Flag: NO X-Spam-Score: -4.793 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-4.793 tagged_above=-999 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=0.610, BAYES_00=-1.9, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_MED=-2.3, 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 3aTFJY2MCXxV for ; Mon, 5 Dec 2011 01:26:15 +0000 (UTC) Received: from lo.gmane.org (lo.gmane.org [80.91.229.12]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B8F2B644A6 for ; Mon, 5 Dec 2011 01:26:15 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1RXNJq-0006jV-VZ for gentoo-user@gentoo.org; Mon, 05 Dec 2011 02:26:10 +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 02:26:10 +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 02:26:10 +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 19:25:06 -0600 Organization: Still searching... Message-ID: <87wrabu7wt.fsf@newsguy.com> References: <87vcpwxau3.fsf@newsguy.com> <20111205000820.7b829d64@rohan.example.com> <87r50jykcx.fsf@newsguy.com> <87mxb7yiwk.fsf@newsguy.com> <20111205030758.33e7a4e2@rohan.example.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: sha1:6BcCOCsnr7rKo4ZqXI9Mlg4D7Rc= X-Archives-Salt: edd02fa2-ecb4-4871-b478-8f77d187164e X-Archives-Hash: b47f24a3f3c3f206cc42f36691fd5eec Alan McKinnon writes: > FATAL: No bootable medium found! System halted > > That's a BIOS error, the vm's kernel and it's drivers have not yet been > loaded, never mind running when that happens. In this respect a VM > works just like physical hardware, so what does one do with that error > on physical hardware? you check the BIOS settings. > > Harry, start the VM and engage the BIOS setup, see what it has been > configured to do wrt booting. You may have missed a post where I reported that resetting /dev/sda1 as bootable using gparted rather than fdisk, allowed the boot to proceed. We are now at a kernel panic posted at: www.jtan.com/~reader/vu1/disp.cgi Where it appears there is a missing driver.