* Re: [gentoo-user] Anyone running a gentoo guest on virtualbox?
@ 2011-05-31 1:03 99% ` Pandu Poluan
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From: Pandu Poluan @ 2011-05-31 1:03 UTC (permalink / raw
To: gentoo-user
Are you using a recent stage3 tarball? If so, I suspect your booting
problem has got something to do with this bug:
http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=368597
Rgds,
On 2011-05-31, walt <w41ter@gmail.com> wrote:
> In preparation for the upcoming "upgrade" to gnome3, I've installed
> the latest gentoo snapshot to a new virtualbox machine. (So I can
> trash my virtual gentoo machine instead of my real gentoo machine :)
>
> The virtual install went perfectly AFAICT, except for building a new
> customized kernel for the gentoo virtualbox machine.
>
> Here's what I did to configure my new customized gentoo kernel:
>
> I booted the gentoo install iso image in virtualbox and did lspci -k
> and wrote down all the drivers it displayed.
>
> I also booted my virtualbox ubuntu machine and did lspci -k and again
> wrote down all the listed drivers. (Only one extra driver showed up
> in ubuntu and I included it in my list of drivers to-be-installed.)
>
> I configured my new gentoo custom kernel to use all of the drivers I'd
> gathered from the steps above, and compiled and installed it without
> any problems.
>
> However, when I reboot the virtual gentoo guest machine with my new
> customized kernel, the boot hangs forever after discovering devices
> and mounting the root partition.ro.
>
> Obviously I've configured my custom kernel incorrectly, but how?
>
> If any of you have virtualbox guest gentoo machines running with a
> custom kernel, would you please post your guest .config file for my
> edification?
>
> Many thanks!
>
>
>
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