Re: [gentoo-user] Re: vbox vm no boot

2011-12-05 Thread Claudio Roberto França Pereira
From the first post, you've ran, under grub, setup (hd0,0). This installs grub on the first partition boot loader, you want to install it on the DISK boot loader, on the MBR. Maybe gparted fixed that for you. The correct way would be to run: root (hd0,0) //indicate where grub stage 1.5 and 2 are.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: vbox vm no boot

2011-12-05 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Dec 6, 2011 8:00 AM, Harry Putnam rea...@newsguy.com wrote: Claudio Roberto França Pereira spide...@gmail.com writes: From the first post, you've ran, under grub, setup (hd0,0). This installs grub on the first partition boot loader, you want to install it on the DISK boot loader, on

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: vbox vm no boot

2011-12-05 Thread Claudio Roberto França Pereira
Yeah, just for simplicity. This way you just have one extended file system driver that works for the second, third and forth version of the file system.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: vbox vm no boot

2011-12-05 Thread Walter Dnes
On Mon, Dec 05, 2011 at 08:26:07AM -0600, Harry Putnam wrote That is for the new attempt... I have yet to try booting it, but from your suggestions it sounds like I may have it right this time. I posted another screen grab but never saw it show up here. Trying again

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: vbox vm no boot

2011-12-04 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Dec 5, 2011 7:19 AM, Harry Putnam rea...@newsguy.com wrote: Harry Putnam rea...@newsguy.com writes: Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@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

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: vbox vm no boot

2011-12-04 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Dec 5, 2011 7:55 AM, Harry Putnam rea...@newsguy.com wrote: Pandu Poluan pa...@poluan.info writes: On Dec 5, 2011 7:19 AM, Harry Putnam rea...@newsguy.com wrote: Harry Putnam rea...@newsguy.com writes: Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com writes: [...] A Gentoo VM on

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: vbox vm no boot

2011-12-04 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Mon, 5 Dec 2011 07:34:46 +0700 Pandu Poluan pa...@poluan.info wrote: On Dec 5, 2011 7:19 AM, Harry Putnam rea...@newsguy.com wrote: Harry Putnam rea...@newsguy.com writes: Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com writes: [...] A Gentoo VM on a Linux host works fine here with

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: vbox vm no boot

2011-12-04 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Mon, 5 Dec 2011 08:01:57 +0700 Pandu Poluan pa...@poluan.info wrote: On Dec 5, 2011 7:55 AM, Harry Putnam rea...@newsguy.com wrote: Pandu Poluan pa...@poluan.info writes: On Dec 5, 2011 7:19 AM, Harry Putnam rea...@newsguy.com wrote: Harry Putnam rea...@newsguy.com writes:

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: vbox vm no boot

2011-12-04 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Dec 5, 2011 8:01 AM, Pandu Poluan pa...@poluan.info wrote: On Dec 5, 2011 7:55 AM, Harry Putnam rea...@newsguy.com wrote: Pandu Poluan pa...@poluan.info writes: Yes it is, and its missing because I have no idea what it wants. Do you? I'm still on my way to the office, so I can't

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: vbox vm no boot

2011-12-04 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Dec 5, 2011 8:13 AM, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, 5 Dec 2011 07:34:46 +0700 Pandu Poluan pa...@poluan.info wrote: On Dec 5, 2011 7:19 AM, Harry Putnam rea...@newsguy.com wrote: Harry Putnam rea...@newsguy.com writes: Alan McKinnon

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: vbox vm no boot

2011-12-04 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Dec 5, 2011 8:35 AM, Harry Putnam rea...@newsguy.com wrote: Pandu Poluan pa...@poluan.info writes: On Dec 5, 2011 7:55 AM, Harry Putnam rea...@newsguy.com wrote: Pandu Poluan pa...@poluan.info writes: On Dec 5, 2011 7:19 AM, Harry Putnam rea...@newsguy.com wrote: Harry

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: vbox vm no boot

2011-12-04 Thread Pandu Poluan
On Dec 5, 2011 10:42 AM, Harry Putnam rea...@newsguy.com wrote: Pandu Poluan pa...@poluan.info writes: Just before emerging the source, you really should tarball *everything* (except /proc, /sys, /var/tmp/*, and /usr/portage/distfiles/*), so you can just 'pick up where you left it' :-)

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: vbox vm no boot

2011-12-04 Thread Mick
On Monday 05 Dec 2011 01:25:06 Harry Putnam wrote: Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com 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

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: vbox vm no boot

2011-12-04 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Mon, 5 Dec 2011 08:20:22 +0700 Pandu Poluan pa...@poluan.info wrote: On Dec 5, 2011 8:13 AM, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, 5 Dec 2011 07:34:46 +0700 Pandu Poluan pa...@poluan.info wrote: On Dec 5, 2011 7:19 AM, Harry Putnam rea...@newsguy.com wrote: