Gentoo Guest hangs during startup

misto · Post by **misto** » 8. Jun 2007, 19:01

Hi!

I'm trying to use a Gentoo guest on my Virtualbox (1.3.

, but it hangs during startup. And not always on the same place..
The installation with the livecd went quite smooth, but now I can't boot into my new system. I suppose I did something wrong with my kernel configuration, so can somebody with a working Gentoo guest give me his? I suppose this would be the easiest way..

achimha · Post by **achimha** » 8. Jun 2007, 20:56

Try VirtualBox 1.4.0

Also which kernel revision is your Gentoo?

misto · Post by **misto** » 9. Jun 2007, 00:15

achimha wrote:Try VirtualBox 1.4.0

Doesn't change anything, it still hangs.

achimha wrote:Also which kernel revision is your Gentoo?

I use gentoo-sources-2.6.21-r2, both on the host and the guest systems.

Danke,

Mirko

jbennett · Post by **jbennett** » 9. Jun 2007, 03:43

What file system did you use for your boot and root partitions?

When I was installing gentoo in VirtualBox, I initially wanted to use JFS. But JFS randomly hanged whenever I did a decent amount of disk access (ie, during boot). Switching to EXT3 fixed the problem for me. I tried a few different kernel version (at least 2.6.19, 2.6.20, and 2.6.21) and all of them had the same issue.

misto · Post by **misto** » 9. Jun 2007, 11:01

jbennett wrote:What file system did you use for your boot and root partitions?

I used reiserfs, but I could try it with ext3.

Thanks!

misto · Post by **misto** » 9. Jun 2007, 22:13

I reinstalled on ext3 and I still have the same problem.. any ideas?

misto · Post by **misto** » 10. Jun 2007, 11:08

I have found the problem! I've built my guest kernel without dynamic ticks and now it works.