From: Pandu Poluan <pandu@poluan.info>
To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: vbox vm no boot
Date: Mon, 5 Dec 2011 07:34:46 +0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAA2qdGWxN8xKMmvgVFK7FjOXGuiPY0Mw+pDXD1wqCT7F7LcEtQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87mxb7yiwk.fsf@newsguy.com>
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On Dec 5, 2011 7:19 AM, "Harry Putnam" <reader@newsguy.com> wrote:
>
> Harry Putnam <reader@newsguy.com> writes:
>
> > Alan McKinnon <alan.mckinnon@gmail.com> 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 :-)
Rgds,
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-12-05 0:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-12-04 21:53 [gentoo-user] vbox vm no boot Harry Putnam
2011-12-04 22:08 ` Alan McKinnon
2011-12-04 23:42 ` [gentoo-user] " Harry Putnam
2011-12-05 0:14 ` Harry Putnam
2011-12-05 0:34 ` Pandu Poluan [this message]
2011-12-05 0:49 ` Harry Putnam
2011-12-05 1:01 ` Pandu Poluan
2011-12-05 1:10 ` Alan McKinnon
2011-12-05 1:14 ` Pandu Poluan
2011-12-05 1:30 ` Harry Putnam
2011-12-05 2:38 ` Pandu Poluan
2011-12-05 3:37 ` Harry Putnam
2011-12-05 3:48 ` Pandu Poluan
2011-12-05 1:07 ` Alan McKinnon
2011-12-05 1:20 ` Pandu Poluan
2011-12-05 7:42 ` Alan McKinnon
2011-12-05 14:26 ` Harry Putnam
2011-12-05 17:46 ` Claudio Roberto França Pereira
2011-12-06 0:53 ` Harry Putnam
2011-12-06 1:05 ` Pandu Poluan
2011-12-06 2:51 ` Claudio Roberto França Pereira
2011-12-06 4:10 ` Walter Dnes
2011-12-05 1:25 ` Harry Putnam
2011-12-05 6:20 ` Mick
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