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