Re: Fatal No Bootable Medium Found System Halted Virtualbox Kali Linux

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Jul 12, 2024, 3:26:51 PM7/12/24

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This of course can only be done in case you had included this drive's image in the virtual box machine's "Storage" settings where you can attach the VDI image of your installation to either a virtual IDE, or a virtual SATA port:

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Although I have accepted the answers above, I realize that from the point of view of a complete noob to linux and operating systems in general, the concept of images ,ISO files etc is still confusing. I remember it taking me a while even after reading them. Primarily because Ubuntu had been installed on my PC by a friend, and I had zero experience there.

When you install VirtualBox, it does not automatically come with the ability to run all the listed operatings systems (as I used to think ). An external file called the ISO or system image file is needed.This is the "bootable medium " referenced above .It generally has the .iso file extension. This file can be found on the website of the OS you want, and must be downloaded. This file is also used if you actually want to install the particular OS on your PC/laptop.

Possible solutions. Burn another bootable CD/DVD disc or create a bootable ISO disk image correctly and try to boot again. Check the media you have inserted into the optical drive attached to the VM. Sometimes the wrong disc may have been inserted by mistake. Verify the checksum of your file after downloading the ISO image by comparing it with the reference checksum on the source site.

Sometimes a VM cannot boot from an ISO image when the hard disk on which the ISO image is stored gets damaged. If some fragments of the ISO disk image are located on bad (damaged) blocks of the HDD (hard disk drive), the ISO file can become unreadable, and a VM will not be bootable from this ISO file.

Possible solutions. Download another ISO installation image, clone a physical DVD disk to the ISO image, or create a new ISO bootable image manually. For example, how to manually create a bootable macOS installation ISO image is explained in the blog post about installing macOS on VMware ESXi. Unfortunately, in most cases, it is impossible to repair a corrupted ISO file stored on a damaged HDD.

VirtualBox allows VMs to use a physical CD/DVD drive of the host machine that can be connected to a VM in settings. Scratches and dirt on optical CD/DVD discs can make the disc data unreadable. This situation is made worse if the scratches are located near the center of the optical disc where the table of contents is recorded as well as the lead-in area that includes information about disc tracks and sectors of the CD/DVD disc.

Possible solutions. Insert the appropriate bootable media into the virtual CD/DVD drive of the VM and reset (restart) the virtual machine. The detailed steps for checking the bootable media for your VM are as follows:

In the screenshot below, you can see that the optical drive of the VM is empty. In this case, it is necessary to choose a virtual optical disk ISO file or select the host optical drive with a physical optical CD or DVD disc inserted.

If you use a VM to boot from a live CD/DVD each time, select the Live CD/DVD checkbox. When this option is enabled, a virtual CD/DVD disk image (ISO) is not removed from the virtual CD/DVD drive when the eject command is sent from the guest operating system. Hence, if you reboot the VM with the selected Live CD/DVD checkbox, a VM will boot from the same ISO disk image. Otherwise, the virtual CD/DVD drive of the VM will be empty after ejecting from the guest OS (operating system) and further VM reboot, and you can get the fatal error in VirtualBox: No bootable medium found! System Halted.

This can occur if you are looking to boot from the virtual disk where the OS is already installed, but the virtual optical drive is selected as a boot device, and the virtual hard disk is not selected as a boot disk in the boot order list.

Another case for the No bootable medium found in VirtualBox fatal error is when a virtual optical drive with a higher boot order contains the unbootable media. The disk drive that contains the correct boot image has the lower boot priority and is disabled.

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The error "No bootable media found", indicates that VirtualBox cannot find a valid boot device to start the virtual machine (e.g. a mounted iso or a virtual disk with a bootable operating system) and can occur for any of the following reasons:

In order a virtual machine (VM) to work, you have to install an operating system on it. So, if you just created the VM machine and you haven't installed an operating system, attach a bootable .ISO file with the operating system that you want to install, and proceed to install the OS. *

As I mentioned above, the VirtualBox fatal error "No bootable medium found", can appear if the GUEST OS doesn't have a valid boot configuration.* At such a case you have to repair the boot files on the virtual disk in order the VM machine to start without errors.

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Quando coloco para inicalizar o Linux atarves do Virtaul Box ele no executa o boot do sistema e aparece a seguinte mensagem no bootable medium found system halted. Verifiquei na BIOS do PC se a funo para VM estava habilitada e esta, verificado tambem as configuraes no VirtualBox e esta tudo ok. Fico no aguardo caso tenham uma soluo para este problema.

Esse erro pode ocorrer se voc estiver tentando inicializar a partir do disco virtual (.vdi) onde o sistema operacional j est instalado (que pode ser o seu caso se estiver utilizando a mquina do instrutor). Porm a unidade ptica virtual pode estar selecionada como um dispositivo de inicializao, ao invs do o disco virtual, ou seja, a ordem da lista de inicializao pode estar invertida.

Pode ocorrer esse erro, se voc estiver utilizando uma imagem iso que foi criada incorretamente ou se no foi inserido um iso na unidade tica virtual da VM. Porm, se voc estiver utilizando a mquina que o professor disponibilizou, provavelmente este no o problema.

Para solucionar isso, pode ter duas solues, como utilizar outra imagem de disco ISO, que seja inicializvel corretamente e tentar inicializar a mquina novamente, verificando se a mdia que voc inseriu na unidade ptica est conectada VM. Outra soluo que recomendo observar antes que caso a unidade tica virtual da VM esteja vazia, preciso adicion-la da seguinte maneira:

Tambm nas Configuraes da mquina do Kali Linux, v em Armazenamento/Storage. Caso em IDE estiver vazio, selecione o campo Vazio/Empty e em seguida, selecione o cone de CD azul em Atributos/Attributes e selecione Escolher/criar disco ptico virtual/Choose Virtual Optical Disk File.

Em seguida ir abrir uma janela para voc selecionar a iso, caso voc esteja utilizando a mquina do professor, basta selecionar a Kali-Linux-2016.2-disk002_8.iso e clicar em Escolher. Porm, caso esteja baixando por fora no site, voc deve selecionar a iso baixada.

Caso continuar no dando certo, podemos tentar as outras solues citadas no artigo, no trouxe todas porque a maioria delas se tratam de utilizar uma iso, mas no caso estamos apenas rodando uma mquina pronta que o instrutor disponibilizou.