Virtualbox: Raw linux partition not booting

Posted by abalter on Super User See other posts from Super User or by abalter
Published on 2012-05-28T04:36:18Z Indexed on 2012/07/06 3:18 UTC
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I have a dual-boot laptop with Windows 7 and Ubuntu 12.04. I am trying to boot the ubuntu partition from windows using Virtualbox. I have successfully created the .vmdk, and created the virtual machine. However, I can't get it to boot (in Virtualbox). All I get is a black screen with the cursor in the top left.

I wonder if I'm specifying the partitions correctly. My Ubuntu install has 3 partitions: \, \boot, \home. No swap partition. These are all in Disk 0, partitions 3,4,5 respectively.

The command I used to create the .vmdk is:

 VBoxManage internalcommands createrawvmdk -filename C:\Users\abalter\.virtualbox\ubuntu.vmdk -rawdisk \\.\PhysicalDrive0 -partitions 3,4,5

Then I create a virtual machine based on that .vmdk.

Why won't it boot?

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