On Sun, Mar 13, 2011 at 4:27 AM, Kees Nuyt <[email protected]> wrote: > 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, >> > > 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
I tried the individual partition approach with no change. still get the "Operating System Missing" error message. I honestly do not understand the alternate mbr approach to this problem. The documents make it sound like that option is to allow the easier use of multiple operating systems on real partitions of the same physical disk. I'm not interested in this at all. and since my drive boots on the bare metal, it must mean that the mbr is correct that is on the drive. I don't know where I could get a working mbr file to embed in the virtual disk that would actually boot that disk. It's likely that I'd screw that up and then I'd have two problems and not be able to tell them apart. I'm likely not understanding the documentation here, so I'll plead ignorance, but this still does not work. I think that it should, and I don't think what I'm hoping to do is unreasonable. Any idea what I might be doing wrong? ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 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
