On Wed, Jan 31, 2018 at 2:44 PM, Harry Putnam <rea...@newsguy.com> wrote:
> Installing gentoo as guest into vbox vm on solaris-11 (openindiana)
> HOST
> gentoo-17
> VBox 5.2.6
> Kernel 4.15.0
>
> My first boot resulted in resulted in a kernel panic... not able to
> mount root.
>
> I checked my /etc/fstab trying to make sure I didn't make a stupid
> mistake there... it appear to be sound. (Included at the end of post)
>
> I suspect it may be the result of a kernel choice... or rather the
> lack of one. Something that would have been able to mount /
>
> I thought it would be ata_piix and made sure that was selected in
> kernel .config
>
> I'm thinking it may be be ata_generic, which I did not have selected.
> Which I have now enabled. But I see now, that is for IDE.
>
> In a chroot now I can see lspci -k shows ata_piix in use .. but that
> would probably be because in vbox I have the gentoo install media on
> IDE secondary master. But also shows sata controller ahci
>
> Which I do also have selected in .config. However there a number of
> AHCI choices in the kernel config that were not selected.
>
> Can anyone tell me what they used to allow gentoo in vbox to boot?
>
>
>
Did you enable the recommended kernel config options as suggested here [1]?
[1] https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/VirtualBox
