How to get rid of the "No bootable medium found!" error in Virtual Box?

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I am working withing Oracle VM Virtual box on Solaris 11. When the battery of my laptop became 0% and I wasn't beside my laptop, the system halted. So when I started the session I got the following:

Fatal: No bootable medium found! System halted.

The problem is I already have a script written there.. Is there a way that I can get it back ?

i think that you should change/add the tag to virtual box.. it would be helpful — Abhishek, Aug 15 '13 at 16:45
It won't help in your case, but for people coming here from Google, make sure that you select Linux and Ubuntu when you're creating the virtual machine. — Pikamander2, Oct 02 '17 at 01:59

score 18 · Answer 1 · answered May 21 '14 at 15:13

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Follow the steps below:

1) Select your VM Instance. Go to Settings->Storage

2) Under the storage tree select the default image or "Empty"(which ever is present)

3) Under the attributes frame, click on the CD image and select "Choose a virtual CD/DVD disk file"

4) Browse and select the image file(iso or what ever format) from the system

5) Select OK.

Abishek's solution is correct. But the highlighted area in 2nd image could be misleading.

answered May 21 '14 at 15:13

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If you still get the error even after choosing the iso, it might be an inappropriate iso for the machine (for example, by mistake I tried to use an `arm64` iso instead of `amd64`, and it didn't give any errors except continuing to show "Fatal: No bootable medium found! System halted" as if I had no iso selected – user56reinstatemonica8 Jan 02 '18 at 19:26

score 14 · Answer 2 · edited Jun 20 '20 at 09:12

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FIX 1:

Step1: Go to settings > then select the following configuration(Disable Floppy)

Config

Alternatively, you can press F12 while booting the Guest OS and select CD from there, this is a one time setting, good enough for the installation.

Step 2: Place your Existing Guest OS bootable CD in the Disk Drive and start the Guest OS.

FIX 2:

Go to Settings > And Perform the following:

Config1

FIX 3:

Try Fix 1 & 2 together..

edited Jun 20 '20 at 09:12

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answered Aug 16 '13 at 00:34

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ok i will try the above steps but can u provide me with a way to recover my script ? thank you – t28292 Aug 16 '13 at 04:32
once your OS starts working you may recover it.. otherwise its quite impossible, unless you had already installed a guest addition, and stored your scripts there!!! – Abhishek Aug 16 '13 at 04:33
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Unfortunately, everything is grey, I can't select anything ! – t28292 Aug 16 '13 at 06:00
when i start the OS , it displays the fatal mess ... then i go to settings and I get everything in grey – t28292 Aug 16 '13 at 06:07
i rebooted the system again ,and started working in a terminal, but when I typed the directory where my script is, there was no such file or directory. – t28292 Aug 16 '13 at 06:29
try command "locate filename.ext" – Abhishek Aug 16 '13 at 06:40
i'm in bash , locate doesn't exist – t28292 Aug 16 '13 at 06:42
ummm..use ls..to check in the specified directory..else i am not sure what to advice.. – Abhishek Aug 16 '13 at 06:44
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For me, I can select/deselect those options. Everything is disabled. Any hint? – rabin utam Jun 24 '14 at 16:24
@rabinutam If it is gray, simply close out of your virtual device, then navigate to settings and perform the operation Abhishek suggests, and then it should work :) – Ruchir Baronia May 10 '17 at 03:29

Freestyle076 · Answer 3 · 2014-09-04T17:01:26.737

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Kind of an embarrassing occurrence of this error for me, but if it helps the cause...

Make sure you have Ubuntu for desktop, part 1 of this wikihow:

http://www.wikihow.com/Install-Ubuntu-on-VirtualBox

A part I may or may not have skipped, along with part 4 (selecting the Ubuntu ISO as the CD Load)

Nobody's perfect :)

edited Sep 04 '14 at 17:01

answered Sep 04 '14 at 02:42

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It's not good practice to just use a link to an external site as your answer as it's far too easy for links to break in future. If possible, please try to capture the salient points in your answer here. – Jane S Sep 04 '14 at 02:54
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Also, there is no mention of Ubuntu in the question, so it doesn't address either the issue specifically asked for or the more generic case. – Jane S Sep 04 '14 at 03:07
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Harsh... Emphasis on the "occurence of this error for me" Also I describe the steps I skipped, a bit concisely but adequately. – Freestyle076 Sep 04 '14 at 17:02
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My two points above are valid. Your answer here is a wrapper for an externally linked web site and it _doesn't_ answer the original question. If you wish to give a solution to _your_ problem, write your own self-answered question. If you fix your answer to _this_ question, I will cheerfully remove my downvote. – Jane S Sep 04 '14 at 21:36
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well the link helped me so thanks @Freestyle076 – sirFunkenstine Jan 11 '15 at 13:35

score 2 · Answer 4 · answered Aug 06 '14 at 06:32

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The CD / DVD wanted to be on the IDE controller on my system, not the SATA controller

answered Aug 06 '14 at 06:32

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+1 to this; also enable the 'Live CD' tick box. Definitely wouldn't run from SATA. – gorlaz Sep 16 '14 at 06:22
what does this mean "wanted to be on". Do you mean put the vdi under IDE rather than SATA, and then it worked? – ahnbizcad Dec 11 '16 at 02:32
Too long ago (i.e. >48 hours) to remember. Reading it I'd say yes. Just try it, your kittens should be safe. – CAD bloke Dec 11 '16 at 09:58

score 2 · Answer 5 · edited Oct 11 '17 at 14:01

It's Never late. This error shows that you have After Installation of OS in Virtual Box you Remove the ISO file from Virtual Box Setting or you change your OS ISO file location. Thus you can Solve your Problem bY following given steps or you can watch video at Link

Open Virtual Box and Select you OS from List in Left side.
Then Select Setting. (setting Windows will open)
The Select on "Storage" From Left side Panel.
Then select on "empty" disk Icon on Right side panel.
Under "Attribute" Section you can See another Disk icon. select o it.
Then Select on "Choose Virtual Optical Disk file" and Select your OS ISO file.
Restart VirtualBox and Start you OS.

To watch Video click on Below link: Link

score -1 · Answer 6 · answered Aug 15 '13 at 16:44

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Try this:

Go to virtual box > right click the OS > settings > under one of the many tab that I don't remember(sorry for this, i dont have vbox installed)> locate the VDI (virtual box disk image) file..

and save the settings.. then try to start the OS..

answered Aug 15 '13 at 16:44

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it didn't work. Is there another way ? – t28292 Aug 15 '13 at 17:14
i cant tell you until tomorrow...my office pc has virtual box..i l go and check the way. for now try to create a clone and start the clone..the clone will have all your files and it wont be deleted.. – Abhishek Aug 15 '13 at 17:30
how can i create a clone ? I'm new to this :s – t28292 Aug 15 '13 at 17:35
right click on your OS inside VBox.. then click on clone, then enter clone name, tick reinitializa mac address(optional), next select full clone and ok.. wait for 30 seconds and your clone is ready.. – Abhishek Aug 15 '13 at 17:37
How about the script that I wrote before? how can i get it back? I did the clone , it has now the one that says Fatal: no bootable .... – t28292 Aug 15 '13 at 17:42
umm this is a critical problem..ur script will be inside the OS..there must be a solution..i l check it reply.within 8 hours.. sorry for the delay – Abhishek Aug 15 '13 at 17:45
no problem I'll wait. thank you :) – t28292 Aug 15 '13 at 17:47

How to get rid of the "No bootable medium found!" error in Virtual Box?

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