Re: [gentoo-user] Re: kernel choices for booting gentoo as guest in vbox vm

On Fri, Feb 2, 2018 at 6:32 AM, Harry Putnam wrote: > Alexander Kapshuk writes: > > [...] > >>> Can anyone tell me what they used to allow gentoo in vbox to boot? >>> >>> >>> >> Did you enable the recommended kernel config options as suggested

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: kernel choices for booting gentoo as guest in vbox vm

2018-02-01 7:57 GMT-06:00 Harry Putnam : > I did get a screenshot but it is very limited showing only a couple > dozen lines of the boot messages. (attached at the end.) > The kernel is not able to mount root. What filesystem did you use? If you used something that is not

[gentoo-user] Re: kernel choices for booting gentoo as guest in vbox vm

Alexander Kapshuk writes: [...] >> Can anyone tell me what they used to allow gentoo in vbox to boot? >> >> >> > Did you enable the recommended kernel config options as suggested here [1]? > [1] https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/VirtualBox I did go thru that page and

[gentoo-user] Re: kernel choices for booting gentoo as guest in vbox vm

David Haller writes: [...] >>I've never used genkernel, but from what I understand it builds >>everything + the kitchen sink.. so should get the right drivers >>hopefully. > > Actually no, you can quite easily configure it to just the tedious > work. First, thanks for the

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: kernel choices for booting gentoo as guest in vbox vm

Hello, On Thu, 01 Feb 2018, Harry Putnam wrote: >I did get a screenshot but it is very limited showing only a couple >dozen lines of the boot messages. (attached at the end.) Still helps: device 8,65 is /dev/sde1. Check on that ;) E.g. in the fstab inside the initrd ... And keeping the initrd

[gentoo-user] Re: kernel choices for booting gentoo as guest in vbox vm

80x24 writes: > On Wed, Jan 31, 2018 at 8:44 PM, Harry Putnam wrote: >> Installing gentoo as guest into vbox vm on solaris-11 (openindiana) >> HOST >> gentoo-17 >> VBox 5.2.6 >> Kernel 4.15.0 >> >> My first boot resulted in resulted in a kernel