When I try and install a virtualbox Windows 7, it gives me this error, even after I've mounted the .iso
FATAL: No bootable medium found! System halted.
I've looked online for hours now and all the "fixes" don't seem to be working, what can I do to fix this it's getting pretty annoying now. I'm mounting an .iso located on the computer, I've also tried to burn the .iso but still no luck, help me please.
Please read my last question again. If you made the ISO yourself as you said then the ISO filename was supplied by you and tells me nothing except your assumptions. I want the label on the DVD from which the ISO was made.
mpack wrote:Please read my last question again. If you made the ISO yourself as you said then the ISO filename was supplied by you and tells me nothing except your assumptions. I want the label on the DVD from which the ISO was made.
I don't understand why this would matter, it's an .iso I had on a USB from long ago when I extracted the file, it works perfectly when burnt too, it just doesn't work with virtualbox which I find weird. It seems like you don't believe me when I tell you I extracted it myself.
It's very simple: I want to know that the label indicates a full version of Windows, and not an upgrade, recovery disk, service pack, tutorial etc etc. Also that it isn't a pirate version. If we can't even verify basic a priori conditions then we're done here.
Ok, let's put it another way: "no bootable medium found" is never wrong. It means exactly what it says. It's now up to you to determine why there is no bootable medium attached to the VM.
mpack wrote:It's very simple: I want to know that the label indicates a full version of Windows, and not an upgrade, recovery disk, service pack, tutorial etc etc. Also that it isn't a pirate version. If we can't even verify basic a priori conditions then we're done here.
Ok, let's put it another way: "no bootable medium found" is never wrong. It means exactly what it says. It's now up to you to determine why there is no bootable medium attached to the VM.
There's not much help here, I've tried to mount several times with no luck, in the settings tab under storage...
Ok, the attach the ISO to the VM then post a VM log file: with the VM fully shut down, right click and "Show Log" in the GUI, save "VBox.log" (ONLY) to a zip, and attach the zip here.
I was having the same issue. I solved it by clicking on the disc icon at the bottom of the VM and noticed that for some reason when I added the Win 10 .iso during set up, Virtualbox was attaching it to SATA port 2. I removed the .iso from port 2 and added it to port 1, powered off the VM and restarted and I was then able to continue with the Win 10 installation.
"powered off the VM" seems to come at an odd point in time in that description. Surely you were powering off the VM every time it failed to find a boot medium? I'm wary since of course "powering off the VM" is all by itself a cure for many ills. As to your conclusion, I wasn't aware that the VirtualBox BIOS differentiated between SATA channels when looking for a boot drive (other than starting from channel 0 and incrementing), but that doesn't mean you are wrong. Intuitively however, in order to support a choice of boot drive e.g. a SATA CD/DVD or SATA HDD in the same VM, I would expect the BIOS to support more than one bootable SATA channel. VirtualBox did in the past have a problem booting from SATA CDs, but I think that was fixed.
Yes I powered off every time, but I changed the sata port while the vm was still running as I didn't see an option as to which port I could attach the iso to in the storage tab under the settings menu. Either way, I was just saying what solved the issue for me. Hope it helps!