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 <w41...@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! > > > -- -- Pandu E Poluan - IT Optimizer My website: http://pandu.poluan.info/
