ose vdi guest install dd: /dev/sda no such device

[rolf]

Trying to install Xandros from the eee-pc dvd or various iso images.

I created a new machine, tried with dynamic default 8G virtual disk and fixed disk, results are the same:

The dvd or iso will boot but stops with:

error: could not find the disk size! can not create user partition
dd: /dev/sda no such device

It appears the Xandros installation is by a dd copy of the image to the first disk but cannot identify the vdi file as sda.

I thought the many-years-old dvd for my eee-pc 701 4g had got corrupted but fresh isos behave the same way.

http://sourceforge.net/projects/eeecomm ... o/download

http://sourceforge.net/project/download ... 080719.iso

These are the two fresh isos I tried, the second linked from some howto that is dated but similar to what I did: https://forums.virtualbox.org/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=11039

[viking60]

Hm sounds strange - that should be possible. I will test it as soon as I can access my superduperboxes tomorrow and let you know. I belive the HD was detected and written to by my puppy clone saluki.

I have also been able to chroot and partiton with the new Arch install regime.....

[rolf]

I've gotten further. Thinking about the age of Xandros and seeing the vbi is created as AHCI SATA by default, looking at Hard disk controllers: IDE, SATA (AHCI), SCSI, SAS in the manual, I removed the AHCI SATA attachment, attached the vbi to the IDE controller.

The original dvd still craps out, so maybe it is corrupt. However, with a fresh iso, the installer is happy, completes to a 'reboot' prompt, but that comes up black screen. There was a slowly blinking cursor, upper left, at first, but that disappears in the time I was waiting for something to change.



Perhaps, a different iso.
Thanks.

[rolf]

It was more complicated and more simple than I could imagine.

It seems my installations were successful (except the original 4g, which might be corrupted). That old how-to was more useful than I thought, and I posted the rest of the story, there: https://forums.virtualbox.org/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=11039

For one thing, it's getting easier to just crank out a new virtual machine.

[viking60]

Even if this is solved then I will give it a go anyway