I recently started to develop some software for the beaglebone, and since I do most of my stuff on my Mac, but developing for the beaglebone requires a "real" (sic!) Linux machine, because the openembedded build system used for managing your cross compiler etc., does not really run on Mac OS X, I installed a virtual ubuntu machine on my Mac.
Marcus from interactivematter gave me a nice link to get a minimal installation on a virtual machine, which can be found here: http://nut-bolt.nl/2012/ubuntu-virtual-machine/
Only problem: it does not work, after installing you try to boot via the bootloader and the bootloader complains with something like
Alert: cannot find /dev/disk/uuid-SOMELARGENUMER
I banged my head against the wall a couple of times, and tried to google the problem, but most of the problems were very specific about update problems withing Ubuntu proper. I found a solution in the end, which I write down now for eternity:
- Stop your virtual machine
- Go into the virtual machine settings
- Go to the harddisk settings
- Change your Harddisk from SATA0 to SCSI 0
- Reboot, be happy.
