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 1QRDOH-0006CH-BS for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 31 May 2011 01:05:01 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id A93431C074; Tue, 31 May 2011 01:03:40 +0000 (UTC) Received: from svr-us4.tirtonadi.com (unknown [69.65.43.212]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 83E7A1C074 for ; Tue, 31 May 2011 01:03:40 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-ew0-f53.google.com ([209.85.215.53]) by svr-us4.tirtonadi.com with esmtpsa (TLSv1:RC4-SHA:128) (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1QRDMw-004E8t-Hq for gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org; Tue, 31 May 2011 08:03:39 +0700 Received: by ewy8 with SMTP id 8so1614756ewy.40 for ; Mon, 30 May 2011 18:03:31 -0700 (PDT) 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 Received: by 10.14.29.70 with SMTP id h46mr1991209eea.115.1306803811412; Mon, 30 May 2011 18:03:31 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.14.48.14 with HTTP; Mon, 30 May 2011 18:03:31 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: References: Date: Tue, 31 May 2011 08:03:31 +0700 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Anyone running a gentoo guest on virtualbox? From: Pandu Poluan To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-AntiAbuse: This header was added to track abuse, please include it with any abuse report X-AntiAbuse: Primary Hostname - svr-us4.tirtonadi.com X-AntiAbuse: Original Domain - lists.gentoo.org X-AntiAbuse: Originator/Caller UID/GID - [47 12] / [47 12] X-AntiAbuse: Sender Address Domain - poluan.info X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: 51ae6486204ec9a1223bff2259cb444a 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 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! > > > -- -- Pandu E Poluan - IT Optimizer My website: http://pandu.poluan.info/