On Sat, 12 Mar 2011 18:09:18 -0600, you wrote: >I have a portable 60gb laptop ide drive in an external travel enclosure. > >The first partition on the drive is a 100mb fat32 partition that has >syslinux-4.03 installed. > >If I reboot my laptop it boots from this device just fine. > >But I want to test my syslinux configuration files inside a vm without >having to reboot my laptop, > >I followed the instructions posted at >http://www.pendrivelinux.com/boot-a-usb-flash-drive-in-virtualbox/ > >to create a raw disk vmdk file. > >Command completed successfully. > >I then modified an existing vm to boot from the raw disk vmdk file >instead of the drive file. > >I turned off the usb filter so that it would not try to mount the device twice. > >and I booted the vm and I get an error message from the vbox bios that >states "Missing Operating System" > >Because I know it works on a physical machine, I know its not the >drive. Any hints about what I might have done wrong? > >I'm running VBox 4.0.4 on a windows 7 64bit host.
You may have to install a MBR in the VMDK http://www.virtualbox.org/manual/ch09.html#rawdisk Scroll down to "Access to individual physical hard disk partitions" (currently labeled as http://www.virtualbox.org/manual/ch09.html#id419069 ) >Thanks for pointers/advice > >Rance HTH -- ( Kees Nuyt ) c[_] ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Colocation vs. Managed Hosting A question and answer guide to determining the best fit for your organization - today and in the future. http://p.sf.net/sfu/internap-sfd2d _______________________________________________ VBox-users-community mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/vbox-users-community
