id,summary,reporter,owner,description,type,status,component,version,resolution,keywords,cc,guest,host
7045,Can't boot guest Linux on the second physical disk.,"Liu, Xinyun",,"virtualbox: 3.2.4

After create vmdk file, the Ubuntu failed to boot.

I tried two disk, one is the whole disk, the other is that with some partitions. Both failed.

to create and register vmdk for the physical disk
{{{
C:\Program Files\Oracle\VirtualBox>VBoxManage.exe internalcommands listpartitions -rawdisk \.\PhysicalDrive0
Oracle VM VirtualBox Command Line Management Interface Version 3.2.4
(C) 2005-2010 Oracle Corporation
All rights reserved.

Number Type StartCHS EndCHS Size (MiB) Start (Sect)
1 0x07 1 /0 /1 1023/239/63 76308 15120

C:\Program Files\Oracle\VirtualBox>VBoxManage.exe internalcommands listpartitions -rawdisk \.\PhysicalDrive1
Oracle VM VirtualBox Command Line Management Interface Version 3.2.4
(C) 2005-2010 Oracle Corporation
All rights reserved.

Number Type StartCHS EndCHS Size (MiB) Start (Sect)
1 0x83 0 /32 /33 1023/254/63 11443 2048
5 0x83 1023/254/63 1023/254/63 12397 23439360
6 0x82 1023/254/63 1023/254/63 3905 48830464
7 0x83 1023/254/63 1023/254/63 11443 56829952
8 0x83 1023/254/63 1023/254/63 266052 80267264

C:\Program Files\Oracle\VirtualBox>VBoxManage.exe internalcommands createrawvmdk -filename c:\vms\t400\sdb.vmdk -rawdisk \.\PhysicalDrive1 -register
Oracle VM VirtualBox Command Line Management Interface Version 3.2.4
(C) 2005-2010 Oracle Corporation
All rights reserved.

RAW host disk access VMDK file c:\vms\t400\sdb.vmdk created successfully.

C:\Program Files\Oracle\VirtualBox>VBoxManage.exe internalcommands createrawvmdk -filename c:\vms\t400\sdb.vmdk -rawdisk \.\PhysicalDrive1 -register
Oracle VM VirtualBox Command Line Management Interface Version 3.2.4
(C) 2005-2010 Oracle Corporation
All rights reserved.

RAW host disk access VMDK file c:\vms\t400\sdb.vmdk created successfully.

C:\Program Files\Oracle\VirtualBox>VBoxManage.exe internalcommands createrawvmdk
-filename c:\vms\t400\sdbp.vmdk -rawdisk \.\PhysicalDrive1 -partitions 1,5,6,7
,8 -register
Oracle VM VirtualBox Command Line Management Interface Version 3.2.4
(C) 2005-2010 Oracle Corporation
All rights reserved.

RAW host disk access VMDK file c:\vms\t400\sdbp.vmdk created successfully.

C:\Program Files\Oracle\VirtualBox>
}}}

log with sdb.vmdk
{{{
t400-2010-06-23-00-14-36.log
}}}

log with sdbp.vmdk
{{{
t400-2010-06-23-00-15-28.log
}}}
",defect,closed,virtual disk,VirtualBox 3.2.4,fixed,,,Linux,Windows