I currently have both Ubuntu 10.04 LTS and Windows 7 (64bits) installed on my machine in dual boot. Prior to 10.04, I was able to fully virtualize my physically installed Ubuntu setup on Windows 7 using Virtualbox and grub1.5. I had followed this
tutorial. Now, I have upgraded my distribution to 10.04 LTS, removed grub1 and installed grub2 to it (since the upgrade wouldn't remove grub legacy) and tried to follow this
tutorial even though it was listed working only on 9.10. As expected, I cannot seem to boot into my OS from Win 7 with grub 2 using Virtualbox. Dual booting into any OS though works perfectly with grub2.
I get the following grub2 error when launching the virtual vdi: Unknown file system and shell drops into rescue mode.
If I provide a grub image file to virtualbox and specify the config file by entering
into the command line, it follows with this error:
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error: no such device: (here is my device id)
error: unknown file system
error: you need to load the kernel first
Note that prior to grub2, I didn't have to specify any grub iso image for the system to boot correctly into VBox.
Does anyone know a related issue or tutorial (or better, someone that knows the answer!) that could help me virtualize my physical installation of Ubuntu 10.04? Maybe I have to do additional steps within grub2 to be able to boot the guest OS?
Thanks and best regards.