I have a USB drive which has windows on partition 1, and linux on partition 2. I tried to boot this drive in vbox. 1. Via grub: Grub complains about error in system disk. 2. I booted with windows installation CD and tried to restore the windows boot (overwrite grub. in the repair console I typed fixboot, and windows responds with FIXBOOT cannot find the system drive, or the drive specified is not valid. Interestingly enough, the command diskpart does display the disk's 2 partitions. P1 is windows, and P2 is Unknown (to diskpart). I dont quiet understand what fixboot means when it says it cannot find the system drive; but I assume it means the drive that bios detected. Now I understand that the emulated IDE controllers PIIX3 and PIIX4 (currently using PIIX3) is not the controller used when the disk was first created. However, I DID run the MergeIDE package before I tried to boot it in vbox. As you can see, to no avail. I had no such problems with VMWare. All I had to do for VMWare was to install the VMWare scsi controller driver on windows when it is normally booted. When I boot it in VMWare, windows has no problem finding the drive.
Needless to say, I had gotten a copy of the vbox add-on drivers and installed them on normally booted windows before I tried to boot it in vbox. Cheers, JD _______________________________________________ vbox-users mailing list [email protected] http://vbox.innotek.de/mailman/listinfo/vbox-users
