Virtualbox. After powering off everything is broken.

gentoouser212 · n00b Joined: 12 Sep 2021 Posts: 43

Vitualbox. After powering off the machine everything is broken. Trying to complie with emerge command says "command not found" or "directory doesnt exist". cant mount anything after that, going to a text file for example nano -w /mnt/gentoo/etc/portage/make.conf, it has no text at all. I can save the machine and everythings fine but trying to power off thats what happens. What can help me? When attempting ssh it gives me warning and says "The server host key does not match the one PuTTY has cached in the registry" that wasnt before i guess thats because of powering off the vb again with saving machine there wasnt any warnings. I needed to check some error come up in the settings of vb so i turned it off without knowing that. Because when i was installing for example arch linux on a hardware not on vb i dont remember anything of that.

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alamahant · Advocate Joined: 23 Mar 2019 Posts: 3879

Tony0945 · Posted: Tue Sep 14, 2021 3:22 pm Post subject:

Just to make it clear, are you running Gentoo in virtualbox? Or Running virtualbox on Gentoo?
If it's the first, what is the host OS?

gentoouser212 · n00b Joined: 12 Sep 2021 Posts: 43

alamahant
Yeah, still doing it. I actually emerged everything but some stupid ideave come up to mind so i decided to power off the machine and check if i have a efi boot on to run final commands. So am redoing this and currently on command eselect profile set 1 unDEV. and its 59 of 92 like 2 hours still.Idk maybe if its because i have 1 core and 2 g ram. actually it was quicker priviously.

gentoouser212 · n00b Joined: 12 Sep 2021 Posts: 43

Tony0945 the host os is windows 10 64 bit ltsc enterprise

Tony0945 · Posted: Tue Sep 14, 2021 6:51 pm Post subject:

NeddySeagoon · Posted: Tue Sep 14, 2021 7:56 pm Post subject:

gentoouser212,

When you power up the guest, you will be in whatever your boot media was.
Your install is safe and sound, as far as it went but it is not attached to /mnt/gentoo until you mount it again.
Until you do that /mnt/gentoo is empty.

Boot your guest.
Redo all the mounts
Do the chroot steps.
You are back in your Gentoo as if you had never left.

Do not make partitions
Do not make filesystems.
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gentoouser212 · n00b Joined: 12 Sep 2021 Posts: 43

NeddySeagoon ok, thanks, ill memorize it. I didnt make partitions but i did make filesystems, thats why i lost all my data.

figueroa · Posted: Wed Sep 15, 2021 4:25 am Post subject:

gentoouser212 · n00b Joined: 12 Sep 2021 Posts: 43

Why are you asking? I made it on 3 partitions sda1,2,3 FAT 32 for efi boot, sda 2 for swap and 3 for ext4

figueroa · Posted: Wed Sep 15, 2021 2:17 pm Post subject:

I asked because you wrote, "I didnt make partitions ... ." That is all.
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