Fedora 11 Alpha in VirtualBox

[John Summerfield]

Pasha R wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Did anyone try to install F11 Alpha as VirtualBox guest? Whenever I
> try, installation goes fine, but the system won't boot, saying it
> can't find /dev/root. It looks like installer sets wrong UUID of the
> root partition in grub.conf. After I set the correct UUID, system
> still wouldn't boot, with different message.
> 

Do not use SATA.

In the fora I saw a problem someone had on a Linux host, sharing a 
partition to an opensuse 11 guest. Someone from Sun suggested the 
problem was in Linux by which I understood him to mean the host, and 
asked whether the problem occurred with a virtual disk.

I have the same problem with latest vbox under Windows Server 2003 
running a Debian Testing guest, with a virtual disk. vbox doesn't have 
the assist stuff packaged for Debian, and I don't feel like fiddling 
with the rpm that is available.

The workaround is to choose IDE disk, not SATA.



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