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 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,
